Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:38:12 +0800 From: "Sukhbinder Singh" <sukhbinders@hotmail.com> To: "David Banning" <david@skytracker.ca>, <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Sukhbinder Singh <sukhbinders@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port/Distribution Installation Message-ID: <BAY2-DAV59Pf3L9BGTu0006c346@hotmail.com> References: <BAY2-DAV5SAH2JZZJfw00061226@hotmail.com> <20030405021720.B93482@skytrackercanada.com> <BAY2-DAV43pcXYfkHRG000577c8@hotmail.com> <20030405164107.A9466@skytrackercanada.com> <BAY2-DAV24lyg35sQtg00063377@hotmail.com> <20030407002050.A33915@skytrackercanada.com> <BAY2-DAV26PXCFbN4TZ000686f6@hotmail.com> <3E912280.2060908@laposte.net> <20030407102846.A6906@skytrackercanada.com> <BAY2-DAV9VLEFN03a5s00069a31@hotmail.com> <20030407112418.B7243@skytrackercanada.com>
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ppp is up and running. ----- Original Message ----- From: David Banning <david@skytracker.ca> To: Sukhbinder Singh <sukhbinders@hotmail.com> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 11:24 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port/Distribution Installation > On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:00:52PM +0800, Sukhbinder Singh wrote: > > I downloaded the port, packages and the distributions that I needed. > > However, I am unable to run these packages. Like for instances, I want to > > run the X - Windows environment. I am unable to run it. I went to the > > specific directory for example the XFree86 - 4 directory and typed "make && > > make install clean" at the command prompt but however I am unable to get the > > X - windows environment running. I do not know how to use the "pkg_add" > > command. In other words I cannot get the programs, ports, distributions or > > the packages running which I had already downloaded. Any help will be > > helpful. > > what happened to ppp? Once you have ppp installed then you are better > setup to cvsup a "new" copy of the ports, and install X. >
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