From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 27 01:26:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA29244 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 01:26:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (www.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA29219 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 01:26:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) Received: from neuron.webmore.de (unverified [194.95.214.163]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:25:58 +0200 Received: (from malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA01131; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:22:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:22:24 +0200 (CEST) To: Tom Mullaney Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Coranth Gryphon Reply-To: maltel.usa.net@webmore.com Subject: Re: ports In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13756.12434.64299.883871@neuron.webmore.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom Mullaney writes: > After installing all the standard distributions under 2.2.6 and the ports, > I am still missing things like tcsh, pine, etc. (which is ok cause the > 'The Complete FreeBSD' book tells me to read chapter 7). /usr/ports/mail/pine /usr/ports/shells/tcsh What exactly is your problem ? > > I take it all the software I could want to start out with is in > /usr/ports. To build and install everything (if I have enough room in > /usr...which I have 4GB) I would simply type make, then make install? Yes ... but you don't want to install all the packages and ports !!! > > Also what is the difference from installing the ports and installing the > additional packages during the installation program? The install program > takes like HOURS. packages are precompiled. Malte. > > > -- > Tom Mullaney Jovian Networks, LLC > nic: TM6112 Townsend, MA 01469-1182 > icq: 4139015 (978) 597.0200 > aim: tpmullaney http://www.jovian.net/~tpm > -- > Unix, networking, administration, consulting, programming, Internet services > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message