On 4/19/06, Alexander K. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
> [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment
> http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/
>
Oops--no coffee yet. That should have been "/sw/bin/gimp" if we
assume a default Fink installation.
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