[Slackbuilds-users] Why Might a SBo Application Look in /usr/local?

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Donald Allen wrote:

> To try to help you, I'd be interested in knowing the architecture and
> version of the Slackware system you are running and seeing the result of
>
> ls -l /var/adm/packages/R*

Don,

(Slackware-13.1/32-bit)

[rshepard at salmo ~]$ ll /var/log/packages/R*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73083 2011-08-29 16:29
/var/log/packages/R-2.13.1-i486-1_SBo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13272 2010-11-08 09:49
/var/log/packages/ReportLab_1_20

> cat /var/adm/packages/R-2.13.1*

PACKAGE NAME:     R-2.13.1-i486-1_SBo
COMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE:     25620K
UNCOMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE:     42140K
PACKAGE LOCATION: /tmp/R-2.13.1-i486-1_SBo.tgz
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
R: R (language and environment for statistical computing)
R:
R: R is a language and environment for statistical computing and
R: graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language
R: and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories
R: by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a
R: different implementation of S. There are some important
R: differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R.
R:
R:
R:
FILE LIST:
./
usr/
usr/lib/
usr/lib/R/
usr/lib/R/etc/
usr/lib/R/etc/repositories
usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf

   etc.

> hash
>
> and
>
> echo $PATH
>
> from the instance of bash giving you the error would be useful.

[rshepard at salmo ~]$ R
-bash: /usr/local/bin/R: No such file or directory
[rshepard at salmo ~]$ echo $PATH
/opt/db-main/bin:/home/rshepard/bin:/usr/local/bin/java:/opt/qt/bin:opt/wx/2.8/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/kde4/libexec:/usr/lib/qt/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin:.

   Makes no sense to me, either.