Locating installed packages?

Recently I installed GD on a freebsd box from source.

I'm now compiling php, And the path I specified for GD is apparently not correct.

I can't figure out where it is thoug!?!

What is the best wya to figure out hwere packages install? gd isn't really a string i can just locate

Is there some kind of file that is left in the source directory that may let me know!?

Thanks

~~Willy

try:

I rather doubt that rpm -qa is going to help much since the system is freebsd and the owner probably installed via the port.

Normally, the default it /usr/local/lib though you could have installed it anywhere.

Obviously you're searching for libgd.so.* , so running a find could help as well.

Cheers.

you could also try
i believe. *shrug* best way to find out is to try

I doubt that 'whereis' will help much, since that command searches for binaries and source (along with man pages for said binary), not libraries.

Better off with find.

You should install it from source using the ports collection. That will give you the ability to track what you have installed using the pkgtools. For example.

/usr/ports/all/gd

make install clean

then

pkg_info

that will list the packages. the benefit of ports is that you can keep it updated very easily. Managed and you can track what you have.

There is a sysutil caled portupgrade that you can use very easily to keep it updated and all the other packages for that.

Thanks

X

http://forum.lucidnow.com/

I concur that installing from the ports tree makes it much easier to manage source installations, however this user already installed via a source tarball, which means installing from the standard package, sans FBSD makefile, may cause severe conflicts if the previous source install is not sufficiently removed.