From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 27 11: 0:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.gte.net (mail1.gte.net [207.115.153.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD3D115107 for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 11:00:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phbrown@gte.net) Received: from gte.net (1Cust234.tnt21.sfo3.da.uu.net [208.254.227.234]) by mail1.gte.net with ESMTP for ; id NAA14525 Sat, 27 Mar 1999 13:00:11 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <36FD2AAF.2FE02629@gte.net> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 10:59:59 -0800 From: Parker Brown X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win98; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tech Support Subject: Troubles Installing lynx from ports on 3.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As root I entered "make install" while in /usr/ports/www/lynx (and ./lynx-current) and got the same messages: couldn't find a .tar.gz file, then tried to download from a couple of Internet sites -haven't set that up yet- and finally said "port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles and try again." How does one "port manually"? I even tried various man files and got nowhere. I use lynx to access the online handbook. Is there some other method I could use to install lynx? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message