[~bash $]

Fink users: does anyone know how to add the standard fink binary installation path (/sw/bin/) to the 'whereis' search?

[besson3c]

Yeah, you need to add this path to your shell's path environment variable. Do you happen to know what shell you are using? What happens when you do a:

echo $SHELL

[~bash $]

I'm using bash version 3.2 (binary from fink unstable).

Currently the line:

export PATH=$PATH:/sw/bin/

is already present in my .bashrc.

[red rocket]

I'm not sure about the order in which the files are called, but if you type or paste the following commands into your Terminal window, that should cover most of the bases.

[codex]cat << EOF >> ~/.profile
PATH=/sw/bin:\$PATH; export PATH
EOF[/codex]

[codex]cat << EOF >> ~/.bashrc
PATH=/sw/bin:\$PATH; export PATH
EOF[/codex]

[codex]cat << EOF >> ~/.bash_profile
PATH=/sw/bin:\$PATH; export PATH
EOF[/codex]

You also should open a new Terminal window afterwards for the settings to be recognised.