From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 13:41:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f112.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.149.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24AF937B6A6 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 13:41:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 13:41:37 -0800 Received: from 24.70.196.175 by lw4fd.law4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 07 Feb 2001 21:41:37 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.70.196.175] From: "Stuart Morse" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't find ports directory Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 13:41:37 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Feb 2001 21:41:37.0768 (UTC) FILETIME=[BFCC2E80:01C0914E] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Tim, Thanks for the tips. I've installed the ports tree, but the make command: # cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-bin # make all install clean doesn't work because I'm inside a proxy server. Any idea how I can install ports through a proxy server? Regards, Stuart >From: Tim McMillen >To: "Stuart Morse" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Can't find ports directory >Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 14:04:22 -0500 > >On Wednesday February 07, 2001 13:41, Stuart Morse wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I just installed FreeBSD for the first time. I just got XFree86 > > working, and now I'd like to install KDE. Problem is I don't have > > a /usr/ports directory. Did I say "no" to some option when installing > > the OS to cause this to happen? Either way, how do I get myself in > > a position to install KDE? > > You didn't say what version of FreeBSD you have, but the KDE version 1 >is on the 4.2 CD as a package. You can just mount your CD and use >pkg_add to install KDE version 1. > To get KDE2 you will have to install the ports tree. You can do that >from /stand/sysinstall. Then you will probably want to use cvsup to >update your poprts tree. I don't think the KDE2 port will work without >that. You need all the latest patches that cvsupping will give you. >Then cd /usr/ports/x11/kde2; make install clean >If you want gif support you need to build qt with that first. > > Tim >-- > >/""\ >\ / > X ASCII Ribbon Campaign - Say NO to HTML in email >/ \ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message