Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:26:04 +0100 From: Bastiaan Welmers <bastiaan@welmers.net> To: "Ne'Bahn" <business.oriented@gmail.com> Cc: UNIX - questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Install via ports... Message-ID: <20061214002604.GA873@routeduvel.rembrandtkd.welmers.net> In-Reply-To: <002001c71f12$f36c4560$71d3dcc9@bloodlust> References: <002001c71f12$f36c4560$71d3dcc9@bloodlust>
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On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 07:00:20PM -0500, Ne'Bahn wrote: > Hi list, I've read the handbook for ports, basically (if I understand) > ports are files that brings information (location, dependencies) to > the > system to compile a series of files (sources) to have the final piece > of > software. Very nice with the advantages that comes with this type of > installation, but, what about a big applications like Gnome, > OpenOffice and > so on. I can't try ports because I can't have a fast/long connection > for > downloads (due to some restrictions on my country) so I always install > via > packages, and it takes a while, well a little bit. You can do "make fetch" to fetch the required package distfiles first, or "make fetch-recursive" to fetch all the required distfiles of all packages required by this package. see "man ports" for other targets. /Bastiaan
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