From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 23 20:48:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7CD016A4DA for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:48:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from p1agu313@yahoo.com) Received: from web35508.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web35508.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.179.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32A1043D49 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:48:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from p1agu313@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 92283 invoked by uid 60001); 23 Aug 2006 20:48:26 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=ktKXqqufzWBr9ZaEBE2UqAOVhJsjQAzfaak+Kjd/tBLGxee/S+gFRw3pqWMAj6czmhuENerLimHDuqTBBL4oZRh5fCoqQfaPIjDO1BBZ82LJZGRw0q64E5MlEg8XKLWLmnJywzoGlRoXWt5071NJxhBxq7M5GKhoXzwHNEHADlw= ; Message-ID: <20060823204826.92281.qmail@web35508.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [65.19.28.24] by web35508.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:48:26 PDT Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:48:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "E. Gad" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <44EBEB3D.7030500@lvor.halvorsen.cc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: More newbie questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:48:27 -0000 Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Subhro wrote: > yourself. However remember to cvsup your ports tree before you start > using it to get the required software. Refer to the handbook for > understanding how ports work. For most people portsnap would be a better way of updating one's ports tree. Firstly, it's in the base system and thus doesn't require any third party software. Secondly, most newbies find it easier to use. Svein Halvor Hmm porstnap seemed to have worked ok. I installed the portupgrade suite through pkg_add. Somethings still not happy. Because when took a stab at installing: nvidia-driver nvidia-glx xorg and compat 5 as a dependency for nvidia-driver/nvidia-glx nvidia can't find something and I don't know what because the first part of the message scrolls of the screen- (remember I'm not in xorg yet) -What the newbie here has done so far to help itself- Just as a guess-reinstalled linux_base because I remembered reading on a Just Some Guys 'Blog abut the same problem thinking it couldn't hurt anything since I hadn't installed hardly much of anything- cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base. make deinstall make clean make install Ran that for 15 minuts-it ran into some sort of "error 1!" (repeated 5 times) Undaunted-re- did make etc. Somethng about rpm something not found (cd'd into linux_bas-fc4) ran make install clean-but it says it can't find the ftp servers- Any guesses what I'm doing wrong? --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail.