On 4/18/06, Daniel E. Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > I'm running an Intel iMac that I purchased... Friday night. I've used
> > various flavors of Linux over the last year and a half but I'm only a
> > casual *nix user. Help.
> >
> > charles-whites-computer:~ chuck$ source /sw/bin/init.sh ; gimp
> > -bash: gimp: command not found
> > charles-whites-computer:~ chuck$ sudo fink list -i gimp
> > Information about 1762 packages read in 0 seconds.
> > i gimp 1.2.5-1007 The GNU Image Manipulation Program
>
> Sometimes the command name is not the same as the package name. Some
> packages contain lots of programs ("gnome-games" has a separate
> program for each game, but no unified interface to the whole suite of
> them). And some commands may be available in many different versions
> or with different configurations and options enabled, so the programs
> have different names so you can control which you use. 'dpkg -L' will
> tell you the names of all the files installed by a certain package;
> files in /sw/bin and /sw/sbin are the ones you'd usually run. Try
>
> dpkg -L gimp
>
> and see if maybe the file in /sw/bin has a name other than just "gimp".
>
> dan
And in this case, indeed it does not, unless you install the
gimp-default package.
(the reasoning here is that gimp1 and gimp2 can exist alongsided each
other, provided that /usr/bin/gimp is provided by some other package
and points to one or the other).
--
Alexander K. Hansen
Fink Documenter
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