From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 15 6:45:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7BF37B775 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 06:45:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abovone@mindspring.com) Received: from alex (user-2inigbi.dialup.mindspring.com [165.121.65.114]) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA14944 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:45:24 -0400 (EDT) From: abovone@mindspring.com Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20000815095014.00826100@pop.mindspring.com> X-Sender: abovone@pop.mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 09:50:14 -0400 To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ports Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Having trouble installing ports.. I'm tring to install emacs, I did a whereis command to find the directory, cd to it (/usr/ports/editors/emacs) ls the dir found the files Makefile README.html files patches pkg these are the skeleton file right? then as the complete FreeBSD book states entered a make command at the prompt then got this message emacs-19.34btar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system then it tried to ftp it from a site (I'm not connected yet so that didn't work) there's no atempt to get it from my cdrom (it is mounted cd /cdrom).. What am I doing Wrong??? Same thing happens to every port i try to install.... Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message