Re: New Installation of 2.5.29 on FreeBSD

[Graham Percival]

On 14-Jun-05, at 3:32 AM, Gordon Gilbert wrote:
> I have just installed, under the very able guidance of Graham 
> Percival, version 2.5.29 on my FreeBSD 5.3 system.  Now, when I try to 
> run it, the program won't launch, nor will it convert-ly.  What am I 
> missing here? I'm thinking it might be that the program was installed 
> (at Graham's suggestion) in /usr/src/ instead of some other
>  directory, as when a program is installed by ports.  I did uninstall 
> the port version (2.2.2) and run the gmake install, etc. per the 
> instructions. This is from the xterm where I run it:

I don't think it was installed in /usr/src; it was unzipped there.

I can't remember if I told you that the "gmake install" needed to be 
run as root -- either
su to root and run "gmake install", or (if it's set up) run "sudo gmake 
install".  When you
do that, look at the messages -- they should be about installing stuff 
in
/usr/local/STUFF   (ie /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/share, etc)

If that still doesn't work, then do "set | grep PATH".  In 
PATH=blahblah, you should see
/usr/local/bin.  If not, you'll need to figure out how to add 
/usr/local/bin to your path.

Cheers,
- Graham