From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 26 14:44:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E669214C56 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 14:44:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA75256; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:44:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:44:19 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Marc Schneiders Cc: Bob Cohen , freebsd Subject: Re: Installing Packages In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Marc Schneiders wrote: > AFAIK they go into /usr/local. So you will find the programs usually > in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin. > Once they are installed, they aren't automatically registered, I > suppose. You can run them by going to the directory in which they are, > and do ./{file name}. Easier is to do a 'rehash' (which doesn't work > in sh and bash, so switch to csh). bash doesn't need rehash; it will detect the new executables in the path. > And there is of course the M$ method: reboot :-) Loging out and back in should be enough. Make sure /usr/local/bin is in your path. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message