From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 12 6:40:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from draenor.org (draenor.org [196.36.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A548B37C16A for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 06:40:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcs@draenor.org) Received: from marcs by draenor.org with local (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13CMjC-000COT-00; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:39:06 +0200 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:39:06 +0200 From: Marc Silver To: Daniel Cuthbert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing software Message-ID: <20000712153906.E37276@draenor.org> References: <20000712092726.V25603@shell.wetworks.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from daniel.cuthbert@uk.psi.com on Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:36:01PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You don't need to untar it. The ports collection does everything for you. For eg: if you go to /usr/ports/editors/vim5, it will automatically download the source for you, untar it, configure it, compile it, and then install it for you. :) I would suggest looking at the FreeBSD handbook section on ports. Look at : http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ports.html Cheers, Marc On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:36:01PM +0100, Daniel Cuthbert wrote: > Hi all > > im a bit confused when it comes to installing packages in FreeBSD > on the ports homepage, if you download say the vmware package, it comes down > as a tar file > now where do i untar this to? > > also what was the ports collection i installed on installation? does that > contact the package aswell > > sorry if this seems confusing but im kinda confused aswell at the mo > > cheers > > dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message