From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 13 12:15:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ADA637B400 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:15:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFD1943E42 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:15:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (4664732a8b6a226b3bc4efdbe7285f3f@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g7DJGe2e097678; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:16:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g7DJGe6C097677; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:16:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:16:40 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: Parker Brown Cc: BSDQuestions Subject: Re: Disappearing Ports Message-ID: <20020813191640.GR2818@vectors.cx> References: <3D5958CD.9618EE68@charter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D5958CD.9618EE68@charter.net> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG use the tool pkg_info. # pkg_info -L 3dc\* will tell you that the installed program name is 3Dc. note the capitalization. also, you can do, for example: # grep 'bin/' /usr/ports/3dc/pkg-plist bin/3Dc -Adam >> (08.13.2002 @ 1206 PST): Parker Brown said, in 0.9K: << > I just re-installed BSD 4.6, and I felt that installing packages -vs- > porting might save me some disk space, so during the pre-install > configurations I selected several items (I'll use 3dc -"3-D Chess" as > an example) from the packages section. Well, no error messages, but I > can't find it. So I decided to install it using make install in > /usr/ports/games/3dc. I got the message that it was already installed, > and I followed the suggestion to run make deinstall and then make > reinstall. All went fine, except that I can't find it. Running find > /usr -name "3dc" -print says "SURE it exists, as a directory in > /usr/ports/games!" And no module named 3dc exists in my $PATH, which > seems to be in order. > > What am I doing wrong? Even pkg_info says that it is installed, but I > can neither find it nor run it. > > Pb > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >> end of "Disappearing Ports" from Parker Brown << -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message