From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 21 13:34:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.iafrica.com (net-51-14.mweb.co.za [196.2.51.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FA7437B41B for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:34:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from nld-dial-196-7-200-76.mweb.co.za ([196.7.200.76] helo=iafrica.com) by smtp04.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 166f1f-0008Az-00 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 23:35:23 +0200 Message-ID: <3BFC3A23.C5B002E4@iafrica.com> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 23:34:59 +0000 From: rloc Reply-To: rloc@iafrica.com Organization: CAS X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14-15mdk i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD and installing ports Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I recently installed version 4.4 off CDs from FreeBSDmall and have a running system now. The installation of the ports is not proceeding as per the Handbook pages 108 ff however. During the install off the CDs I selected a number of ports to be installed and this seemed to work since I can find them under /usr/ports/xyz/abc. If I mount the relevant CD in the drive and do cd /usr/ports/astro/xworld ((for example) and then type "make" The system says that xworld-2.0.tar.gz is not in /usr/ports/distinfo and then attempts to FTP this file rather than read the CD. The CD files are all in .tgz format anyway. I have been advised to do a pkg_add command but this results in a "package already installed" message. A "make install" command also results in an attempt to FTP. I would appreciate any assistance you can offer. thanks Robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message