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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