From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 26 0: 2:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 275CC37B404 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:02:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sat, 26 Jan 2002 02:05:54 -0500 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id A3D7F3FE5; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 02:04:46 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Alvaro Gil , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Silly question. How to install ports. Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 02:04:46 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020126070446.A3D7F3FE5@i8k.babbleon.org> 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 On Saturday 26 January 2002 01:52 am, Alvaro Gil wrote: > I am having trouble installing ports. I am trying to update apache > to 1.3.22. I downloaded the tarball and did a pkg_add > apacheblabla.tar. it made a new group called www and quit. > > Is this how one usually installs ports? How do you install a port in > the ports directory or if its not in a tarball? I know this info is > online somewhere but I cannot seem to find it right now. Well, the usual way to install a port is: cd /usr/ports/*/portname make install If that is the older version, then you do make deinstall cd /usr/ports/*/cvsup make install cd /usr/ports cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile mysup edit mysup to pick the server to use cvsup and *then* cd /usr/ports/*/portname make install You pkg_add a *package* (thus the name), not a *port*; you can get packages from the freebsd.org website. There's lots more info in the FreeBSD handbook. You should check it out. > > Thanks. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message