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Subject: Re: Strange and weird, probably simple, aim DL
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> Basically it does the same thing. I used the pkg_add as I said, and 
> once I finished, I did the rehash thing, and then logging in and out 
> doesn't seem to change it. Is there a chance the package itself is messy?
>
> I was told to try whereis and did so, and it said 
> /usr/ports/net-im/aim and when I typed the direct path, it said 
> permission denied, so I tried su to root, and ran it again, and it 
> said the same thing...Which is a little strange being root.
>  
If it says something like this:

 > whereis aim
aim: /usr/ports/net-im/aim

aim is not installed.  an installed pkg will look something like this:

 > whereis pidgin
pidgin: /usr/local/bin/pidgin /usr/local/man/man1/pidgin.1.gz 
/usr/ports/net-im/pidgin