Strange and weird, probably simple, aim DL

Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Sat Feb 7 10:18:46 PST 2009


On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Akenner <SlackWareWolf at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Basically it does the same thing. I used the pkg_add as I said, and once I
> finished, I did the rehash thing, and then logging in and out doesn't seem
> to change it. Is there a chance the package itself is messy?
>

It's possible.

> I was told to try whereis and did so, and it said /usr/ports/net-im/aim and
> when I typed the direct path, it said permission denied, so I tried su to
> root, and ran it again, and it said the same thing...Which is a little
> strange being root.
>

You were told the wrong command.  Try `which aim'.  Also, try
executing with the full path: /usr/local/bin/aim

Is your ports tree up to date?  man portsnap


-- 
Glen Barber


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