Most third party applications will need some level of
configuration after they were installed. This may be a simple
configuration file alteration, or perhaps the application will
just generate a configuration file. Most applications will
have documentation installed into
/usr/local/share/doc and
manual pages. This documentation should be consulted before
continuing. Some applications run services which must be added
to the /etc/rc.conf file before
starting.
The following list contains useful information for
post-install port management. In several cases, finding
the location of binaries if they were installed outside
of the PATH. Users of csh(1) should run
rehash to rebuild the known binary
list in the shells PATH.
The pkg_info(1) command will print all installed files and their location. For example, if the FooPackage version 1.0.0 was just installed, then the following command will show all the files installed with the package.
# pkg_info -L foopackage-1.0.0 | lessConfiguration files are always installed in
/usr/local/etc
and should definitely be consulted before attempting
to use the new application.
To determine which version of the application was installed:
# pkg_info | grep -i foopackagewill find all the installed packages that have
foopackage in the package name.
Replace foopackage as
necessary.
These commands will also show the names of any manual pages installed with the application. This additional documentation will now be available to the man(1) command.
If the application has a web site, consult it for additional documentation or a frequently asked questions page. If the website is unknown, the following command will be useful to print out this information if it's available.
# pkg_info foopackage-1.0.0A WWW: line, if present, should
provide a URL for the application's web site.
Ports that should start at boot time usually install a
startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d.
Review this script for correctness and edit or rename it if
needed. See Starting
Services for more information.
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