Subject: Re: NoobQ: pkgsrc installed apps not working
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Keith Mastin <kmastin@beechtree.ca>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/19/2002 03:40:08
>Hi,
>First up, all packages will install by default into the /usr/pkg/ directory
>structure, and secondly, to be able to run lynx (or anything else)
>immediately after installing it, I suggest running rehash, which does this:
>rehash Causes the internal hash table of the contents of the di-
> rectories in the path variable to be recomputed. This is
> needed if new commands are added to directories in the path
> while you are logged in. This should only be necessary if
> you add commands to one of your own directories, or if a
> systems programmer changes the contents of a system direc-
> tory.
>And thirdly, you should need to do a make install to for the files to
>actually be installed. AFAIK, a straight build will not actually install
>the files.
>Have fun!
> Piers
>
Thanx.... now, if only this was somewhere in the docs...
I didn't need to do the make install. After a rehash, lynx worked fine.
Thanks again. :)
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