From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 27 11:40:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1852114E9D for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 11:40:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from charon@freethought.org) Received: from c40948-a ([24.1.7.99]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.00.03 201-229-104) with SMTP id <19990327193954.ERKF6529.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c40948-a>; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 11:39:54 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990327113932.00a7b100@mail> X-Sender: tuathadedanann@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 11:39:32 -0800 To: Parker Brown , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: charon@freethought.org Subject: Re: Troubles Installing lynx from ports on 3.1 In-Reply-To: <36FD2AAF.2FE02629@gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:59 AM 3/27/99 -0800, Parker Brown wrote: >As root I entered "make install" while in /usr/ports/www/lynx (and >./lynx-current) and got the same messages: couldn't find a .tar.gz file, >then tried to download from a couple of Internet sites -haven't set that >up yet- and finally said "port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles and >try again." >How does one "port manually"? For those of us like me, who don't have a FreeBSD machine connected to the internet, we have additional fun compiling ports :) Of course, the best option for you sounds like connecting you machine to the internet _first_, then installing ports. http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ is a good resource (I'm assuming you have internet connectivity, just not FreeBSD internet connectivity, since it sounds like you don't have the CD's...). Go there, search for the name of the port you want, and click on "sources," and you can download it from there. Once you have the source (a .tar.gz file, almost always), put it in the directory '/usr/ports/distfiles'. Then just do a 'make install clean' in the directory of the port you just downloaded. For many ports, you'll also have to worry about other ports that might be required, but not for lynx. Hope this helps! __________________________________________ Charon@freethought.org http://members.home.net/tuathadedanann/ "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." -Albert Einstein __________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message