Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:06:38 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Valerian Galeru <valerian_ro@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What should i do? Message-ID: <3FB15D6E.4000107@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20031111190156.69172.qmail@web12504.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031111190156.69172.qmail@web12504.mail.yahoo.com>
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Valerian Galeru wrote: >i installed blackbox, a simple window manager. > Cool. >It doesnt have any web browser in it. > That's because it's a 'window manager'. AFAIK, the only way to install a 'window manager' and get a browser in the process is to install a complete environment such as Gnome or KDE...which is a lot more than just a Window Manager.... >But i have installed dillo, a fast web browser, but i cant >login to my email with it (perhaps it doesnt support a lot of things). > That's too bad :( >I want to install opera. When run make install command in >ports/www/opera i get the next error: couldnt fetch it(a file), >please try to retrieve ityourself .... > What file is it looking for? If you have an outdated version of the ports tree, it may be looking for something that no longer exists --- at least, not in the place that it did when the port Makefile was written.... As for browsers, I'm really liking the FBSD native Mozilla.... better CSS rendering than Opera (IMHO) and that M$ product (not that hard, that, really ;-) and their tabbed browsing is way cool, perhaps even better than Opera's.... > I even dont know how to download a file(with what program??? my dillo cant do this...), > Fetch is available from the CLI or terminal in FBSD, natively. For example: $cd /usr/ports/distfiles $fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/somebrowser-1.0.tar.gz > where to take that file from????? and when i wanted to install netscape7 i got the same error... > > In the event that the normal sources of a file aren't available (read the Makefile to see what they are....) there are a lot of the ports distfiles at the path I gave you above. But not, generally, the outdated ones. It might be a good idea to install cvsup and get your ports up to date before installing a browser. I do realize that might take a while. HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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