From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 1 20:02:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32F9916A4CE for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 20:02:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from firecrest.mail.pas.earthlink.net (firecrest.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0DFE43D41 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 20:02:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from 20-74.lctv-b4.cablelynx.com ([24.204.20.74] helo=yoda.datawok.com) by firecrest.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AnVIM-0006Tk-00; Sun, 01 Feb 2004 20:02:46 -0800 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: Krikket , questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 22:03:00 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402012203.00810.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69564776905774d2ac4bcec8e9a701c91b8c3db597c7aed1f130350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Subject: Re: Adding Packages and Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 04:02:50 -0000 On Sunday 01 February 2004 09:29 pm, Krikket wrote: > I've done a brand-new install of FreeBSD (4.9), and am a fresh user to > this flavor of *nix. > > The install went more or less without a hitch. For some reason ldap (part > of the default package selection) didn't want to install. > > While I can ssh to the box, it won't accept the password for users and/or > root. (IE: It makes the connection, gives a login prompt, but the > correct password is rejected. I'm sshing from a Fedora box.) > > But the big problem that I'm having, that's turning into a show-stopper > has to deal with installing packages and/or ports, once the base OS is > installed. > > To test things out, I tried installing mozilla. It failed due to a > dependancy, so I checked out the website to see what was available, found > a version that was there, adn installed it. Dependencies should be taken care of if you installed via ports or using pkg_add and the install cd, or pkg_add and the ftp server. Exactly how did you try to install mozilla? > > But when I type "mozilla" to start the program, it's not found. (Nor was > it added to the KDE Menu.) Try executing 'rehash' after installing an application and before attempting to execute it. Also, if you installed mozilla-firebird, I think the command is 'mozilla-firebird'. Since certain app's help programs call mozilla, you might want to make a link called mozilla to your browser command. > > I was able to do a "pkg_add -r cvsup" on the first try. But I ended up > with the same problem -- not being able to find the package once it was > installed. Needless to say, I can't add any ports as a result. Why are you using the '-r' option? If you're using the install 4.9 CDROM, just cd to /cdrom/packages/All and: pkg_add cvsup-16.1h.tgz If you're using ports, cd to /usr/ports/net/cvsup and execute: make install clean > > I figure there's something basic that I'm missing, but I'll be damned if I > can figure it out, despite the help of the handbook and FAQ... > > Can anyone give me a pointer in the right direction? Please? > > Thanks in advance, > > Krikket Best of luck, Andrew Gould