Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:06:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: anthony@sohopros.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: downloading a port. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980406130544.18904O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980405195120.008f49a0@pop.flash.net>
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On Sun, 5 Apr 1998 anthony@sohopros.com wrote: > I would like to down load the port for netscape v4.05, but > when I go to the FTP directory: > /pub/FreeBSD/ports-2.2.5/www/netscape4/ at ftp.freebsd.org > there arn't any ....tar.gz files. Shouldn't there be? No; the port just says where to get the source file and how to build it. Fetch the port by running cd /pub/FreeBSD/ports-2.2.5/www get netscape4.tar Then extract with tar xzf netscape4.tar Then run cd netscape4 make su make instal Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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