From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 13:18:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C5537B699 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:18:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) Received: from d141-118-73.home.cgocable.net ([24.141.118.73]) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 14Vge6-0004PH-00; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:17:58 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:09:04 -0500 (EST) From: Dru X-Sender: genisis@x1-6-00-00-b4-94-9d-3f.kico1.on.home.com To: Jim McIver Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/make In-Reply-To: <3A93BE3A.5879.96AEFF0@localhost> 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 Jim, General rule of thumb: it it's a "tgz", it's a package; if it's a "tar.gz" its a port. Sounds like you successfully installed the package using the "pkg_add" command. If you're in the C shell, you'll have to type "rehash" before your shell will be aware that mtools is now on the system. Dru On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Jim McIver wrote: > Having trouble following the Complete FreeBSD's book's > instructions on how to install a port and run the make. > > My machine doesn't have a cdrom, so I copied the files to an internal > ftp site to be able to get to the files to the Freebsd machine. I wanted > to try the mtools(mdir, etc..) so I could try to read a dos floppy. Right > now is say's command not found. Of course I've tried other > port/make's and nothing seems to work correctly. (Got to be a user > error on my part) > > Ftp'ed the file named mtools-3.9.7.tgz from the cdrom to the freebsd > machine. Ran "pkg_add mtools-3.9.7.tgz" this completed without any > errors. Went to /usr/ports/emulators/mtools and ran "make" > Error comes back saying "mtools-3.9.7.tar" is not in the > /usr/ports/distfiles area....so I gzip -d the mtools-3-9.7.tgz and copied > the resulting mtools-3.9.7.tar file into the /usr/ports/distfiles > directory so make could find it and tried make again. > > Same error message. > > I have ver 4.2(I think)of freebsd. It doesn't connect to the internet yet > so it fails when trying to grab files from the web site. > > Is there a step by step instruction sheet for installing ports and > running the make and make install that work? > > Of course I'm not sure what I'd do if make install worked, does that > mean the program installed and is ready to run? > > Regards, > > Jim McIver > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message