Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:15:07 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jes=FAs_Arn=E1iz?= <arnaiz@encomix.es> To: "FreeBSD" <questions@freebsd.org>, "Edwin Groothuis" <mavetju@chello.nl> Subject: Re: ports Message-ID: <00b501c07eec$d1dbd2c0$4200a8c0@jesus> References: <004601c07ee0$45a095e0$4200a8c0@jesus> <20010115125818.B44350@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl>
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Hi! Is strange but I read I have to do make install and have my cdrom mounted on the FreeBSD handbook. I see I have a .tar.gz on the first CD (/usr/ports) of FreeBSD so I should decompress all on my hard disk to install bash for example?. Thanks for all. -- Jesús Arnáiz <arnaiz@arcomedia.com> Departamento de Sistemas - ARCOMEDIA.COM http://www.arcomedia.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edwin Groothuis" <mavetju@chello.nl> To: "Jesús Arnáiz" <arnaiz@encomix.es> Cc: "FreeBSD" <questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 12:58 PM Subject: Re: ports > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:45:12AM +0100, Jesús Arnáiz wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I've FreeBSD 4.2 installed. I try to install some ports doing this: > > > > # mount /cdrom > > # cd /usr/ports > > # make > > > > But every time I see it try to find the .tar.gz file on a ftp > > site. It don't look on my CD. > > Ports aren't stored on the cdrom, they are on ftp- and http-servers. > > So cd to the right directory you want to install (for example: > /usr/ports/misc/less) and type "make" there. > > Edwin > > -- > Edwin Groothuis | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: > mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ > ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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