Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:42:04 +0100 (BST) From: J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nicq for FreeBSD??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9910041441520.8303-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <19991004145022.U63946@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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Thanks. Do you know if it works pretty well? jcm On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: |On [19991004 04:18], J McKitrick (jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) wrote: |>Has anyone gotten this client to compile/run? If so, how? I haven't |>tried yet cause i'm new and i don't want to mess anything up. | |In your home directory create a dir called extract | |cd to that dir | |assuming it is a tar.gz package simply do tar xvfz |../wherever/you/placed/the/file.tar.gz | |and it will extract and gzip -d the contents into a seperate directory |in the extract directory [at least if it was packaged in the nicq-x.y |way]. | |Now follow the instructions on how to compile it. Merely compiling it |won't damage your system, not `infect' it with crud. Only when you make |install it will you make modifications to the base system. | |Hope this helps to lower your `fear' of trying to compile things =) | |Kind regards, | |-- |Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl |The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai> |Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best |My name is Legion: for we are many. | | |To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org |with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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