From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 28 15: 4:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CC3B15353 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 15:04:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02252; Fri, 28 May 1999 15:04:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 15:04:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Thomas Widlundh Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Installing In-Reply-To: <99052714162200.00955@tw.oden.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 27 May 1999, Thomas Widlundh wrote: > Installing programs with Ports and ftp doesn't work properly to me. > I wish to redirect the target from /usr/local to e.g. /opt. > Installing with /stand/sysinstall from the CD seems to work alright. > Installing from /usr/ports/xxxx doesn't find /cdrom. /cdrom is mounted. > I've even tried to cd to the proper directory. > But make install in /usr/ports/xxx seems not to find any of the tarballs. The ports tree doesn't have a good sense of maintaining PREFIX. I don't suggest this. > Q2: An idiot-question? > How do I install a tarball? Wich commands? I don't mean tar etc. > I mean the install commands to compile etc. "Installing by hand". > I've done this in Linux. Is it (exactly?) the same? It's on a per-package basis. Read the README! Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message