From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 16 13:55: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from house.key.net.au (house.key.net.au [203.35.4.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1057A1105F for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 13:54:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keith@apcs.com.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by house.key.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA04084; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:54:45 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from keith@apcs.com.au) Received: from well.apcs.com.au(203.35.4.19) via SMTP by mailgw.key.net.au, id smtpdHl4081; Wed Feb 17 08:54:43 1999 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <36C9E452.408BE288@net.com> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:55:17 +1100 (EST) Reply-To: keith@apcs.com.au Organization: Australia Power Control Systems P/L From: Keith Anderson To: Nesi Unanaowo Subject: RE: /usr/ports question Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Nesi Make a dir mkdir /usr/ports/distfiles ftp to ftp.freebsd.org and 'cd' to cd /pub/FreeBSD/distfiles ftp in the gz file quit go back to the make all install Keith On 16-Feb-99 Nesi Unanaowo wrote: > Hi, > I have just reinstalled my OS (3.0) In the /usr/ports/print > directory for example there are packages that i would like to use > but these packages have not been properly installed even though > they are no longer in the compressed tar format. > How do I get these packages to install properly? Do I need to > reinstall the ports from the CD? An attempt to do a "make" > in the /usr/ports/print directory failed with error messages > suggesting that it did not find the appropriate packages in the > correct format. There was even a suggestion of manually > installing these packages into /usr/ports/disfiles directory which > right now is empty. > TIA > Nesi > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --- "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD." ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Keith Anderson Date: 17-Feb-99 Time: 08:52:06 Satelite Service 64K to 2Meg This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message