From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 16 14: 6:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2671E1109C for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:06:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA09682; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:04:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:04:49 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor To: Nesi Unanaowo Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/ports question In-Reply-To: <36C9E452.408BE288@net.com> 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 Hi, Nesi wrote: > 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. I'm a bit confused. There are no packages in /usr/ports (at least initially). Inside /usr/ports/print there should be a set of directories like teTeX, each with a Makefile, a pkg directory (with PLIST, DESC, COMMENT), a files directory (contains MD5), and possibly a patches directory. To make the particular port you are interested in just do the following: cd /usr/ports/print/some_application make install It'll go off and fetch the required source tarball. From the rest of your message it appears possible that you've grabbed the source tarball by hand and uncompressed it inside the /usr/ports/print/some_application directory. This won't work too well, as I guess you've seen. What you can do if this is the case is just move the source tarball to /usr/ports/distfiles, remove the uncompressed source and then type "make install" and it'll build it for you. If you still have trouble send us a detailed description of what's happening (with output from your session) and we'll try again. Brett ****************************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ "Bart, a woman is like a beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!" Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message