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Date:      Fri, 8 Feb 2002 19:25:42 -0800
From:      Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
To:        Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: I don't know how to "patch"
Message-ID:  <20020208192542.A82347@luke.cpl.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020209030645.76350.qmail@web13402.mail.yahoo.com>; from andrewgould@yahoo.com on Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 07:06:45PM -0800
References:  <20020209030645.76350.qmail@web13402.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 07:06:45PM -0800, Andrew Gould wrote:
> I've been reading the instructions for installing
> Oracle for Linux on FreeBSD.  The instructions are at:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-oracle.html
> 
> The documentation states that I should apply certain
> patches.  I've read the man for patch; but am still
> unclear as to how to apply the text in the
> instructions.  I'm not a programmer or developer; so
> please forgive my slowness.
> 
> Any guidance would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,

Normally you would just save the text of the patch to a file, and do something
like this : 

patch < patchfile

You would do this from the root oracle install directory...


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