On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: > I'm still a novice debian user, so forgive me if this seems like a > rudimentary question. How do you "run" a program (or package?) once > you've installed and configured it. For instance, I've just installed a > few games, netscape, and various other utilities that I would like to > use, but I don't know what to do with them. Let's start with the > games: I've gone to my /usr/games directory, and can see the installed > games, but nothing happens when I type in the name of the game listed in > the games directory. Is there another command or something I need to > type to run these programs?
/usr/games should be in your $PATH. See /etc/profile and add it if it isn't there: # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1). PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games" PS1="\\$ " export PATH PS1 ulimit -c unlimited umask 002 Or you can give the path to the game, '/usr/games/<program_name>' Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
