Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 17:18:44 +0800 (Taipei Standard Time) From: justin <justin@mail.syncom.com.tw> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Ports and Packages Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0005291712350.-907983@chill>
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Hey all, I've got a question about ports and packages. Since i'm just a poor high school student I can't really afford to buy the FreeBSD CD. So I downloaded quite a bit of the ports and packages directories of my local FTP site. Whenever I try to do a "make install" on any port it always ends up failing with a bunch of complaints about being unable to find the files. 1. I noticed a certain similarity between the names of some of the tarballs in the packages directory of the FTP site and the files that a "make fetch-list" will list. Actually the names are exactly the same except for the extensions, which will usually be .tgz and .tar.gz. Can I just rename the files from the packages directory and use those to make ports? 2.If I can't use those, where CAN i find the tarballs for the sources that I need? -justin ko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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