Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 23:00:18 -0400 (EDT) From: media@mail1.nai.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jim@blues.ghis.net Subject: Re: install ports from .tgz on disk?? Message-ID: <v03130301b35bc1540c71@[209.150.38.84]> In-Reply-To: <19990507150524.A61232@blues.ghis.net> References: <v0313030db357e409754d@[209.150.34.161]> <v0313030db357e409754d@[209.150.34.161]>
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At 3:05 PM +1000 5/7/99, Jim Mock wrote: > >> I've been going around in circle trying to install ports. I don't >> have internet software set up for FreeBSD yet. When I go into a >> directory for a ported application, and type "make install" it >> tries to ftp a site it can't get to because it's not online. >> >> Is there anyway I can use ports with tarballs I already have saved >> to my primary DOS partion?? > >A few ways should work.. > >1) mount the dos partition and move the tarballs from your dos > partition to /usr/ports/distfiles (since that's where the ports > look for them) Thanx!! I tried that. It wouldn't let me use mv, but cp worked. I went to /usr/ports/www/lynx and typed "make install" but I got the same error message: ## Couldn't fetch it -- please try to retrieve this ## port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles and try again So how do I "port manually" ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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