Fortune

John Nielsen john at jnielsen.net
Tue Jan 8 09:22:46 PST 2008


Quoting Jon Dowd <jondowd at gmail.com>:
> On Jan 8, 2008 9:09 AM, Jonathan Horne <freebsd08 at dfwlp.com> wrote:
>>
>> Jon Dowd wrote:
>> > Is there a port for the game fortune? I recently installed 6.2 AMD64
>> > and I can't find it when I do a 'pkg_add -rv fortune' or 'pkg_add -rv
>> > fortune-mod'
>> >
>> > The ones I find I am not interested in; such as:
>> > zh-fortunetw-1.3
>> > wmfortune-0.241_2
>> > fortune-mod-bible-1.0_1
>> > fortune-mod-bofh-2.0_3
>> > fortune-mod-culmea-culmilor-2005.12.15
>> > fortune-mod-ferengi_rules_of_acquisition-2006.01.26
>> > fortune-mod-futurama-0.2_3
>> > fortune-mod-the-godfather-2.0
>> > fortuneit-1.99
>> > pl-fortunepl-0.0.20051022
>> > ru-fortune-bashorgru-20070808
>> > ru-fortuneru-0.9
>> > fortunelock-0.1.2
>> > e17-splash-fortune-1.1_1
>> >
>> > Am I missing something?
>> >
>> > Thanks for your help.
>> >
>>
>> its a part of the base system afaik.
>>
>> $ which fortune
>> /usr/games/fortune
>
> Somehow there is nothing in my /usr/games directiory.
>
> jondowd at samsara-02
> ~ $ ls -l /usr/games/
> total 0
>
> jondowd at samsara-02
>
> How do I fix that?

You probably did a "minimal" install and have not yet updated, correct? 
Install the "games" distribution from sysinstall or just do a 
buildworld/installworld.

JN



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