installed tree on Mavericks 10.9.2

[Ken G. Brown]

I did realized that tree was a command line utility, that was why I wanted it.

After installing it, tree was still not working from command line. At some later time, it magically started working.
Perhaps I had quit Terminal and restarted at some point, I don’t recall.

Shouldn’t the install process ensure the utility is in working state or does a person always have to quit terminal and restart, or perhaps open a new Terminal window?

What is the accepted procedure?

What is the best macports gui front end?

> port contents tree
results in:
Port tree contains:
  /opt/local/bin/tree
  /opt/local/share/doc/tree/CHANGES
  /opt/local/share/doc/tree/LICENSE
  /opt/local/share/doc/tree/README
  /opt/local/share/man/man1/tree.1.gz

Thx
Ken 

On Apr 23, 2014, at 12:16, Arno Hautala <arno at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Ken G. Brown <kbrown at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Now that tree apparently is installed, how do I run it, where is the executable?
> 
> The executable is probably installed at /opt/local/bin/tree
> You can check for sure using "port contents tree"
> 
>> Is there something I am missing in setting up to be able to run the MacPorts installed programs?
> 
> I'm guessing that you didn't realize that "tree" is a command line
> utility, as is most of the software provided by MacPorts, though there
> are some graphical wares.
> 
> "tree" and the "port" command that I listed above can be run from Terminal.app.
> 
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> arno  s  hautala    /-|   arno at alum.wpi.edu
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