Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 07:45:24 +0100 (GMT+0100) From: "Alain FAUCONNET" <af@biomath.jussieu.fr> To: UFCK28C@prodigy.com (MR BRIAN A NEAL) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing X Message-ID: <199609070645.AA20094@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <199609070347.XAA24328@mime2.prodigy.com> from "MR BRIAN A NEAL" at Sep 6, 96 11:47:25 pm
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MR BRIAN A NEAL wrote / a ecrit:
>
> I've got the dos partition mounted,
>
> and I have the needed files for
> xfree86
>
> I've created /usr/X11R6 and copied
> to tar's there, then
>
> for i in x312*.tgz; do
> tar -xzf $i
> done
>
> but I just get "cannot find file errors"
> when I do this, the xfree readme says
> to do this in root login, but when I try
> that the for command is not recognized.
You DO need to have root privileges do install nearly every software
package, at least anything that creates files in /usr or /usr/local.
Tar complains because it tries to extract files to subdirectories of
/usr/X11R6 (you did create that one as root didn't you?) which he has
been unable to create (because of file permissions).
So:
1) type that list of commands logged in as root (or type "su" from
your normal account)
2) bring up a Bourne subshell by typing "sh". The default shell for
the root account on FreeBSD is the C-shell which has a different
syntax for "for" loops. It would accept the following (just for your
information) :
foreach i (*.tgz)
tar -xzf $i
end
Bonne chance,
_Alain_
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Alain FAUCONNET Ingenieur systeme - System Manager AP-HP/SIM
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I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator"
But... I *am* the system administrator :-]
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