Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:54:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: abovone@mindspring.com Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: ports Message-ID: <XFMail.000815155451.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20000815095014.00826100@pop.mindspring.com>
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On 15-Aug-00 abovone@mindspring.com wrote: > 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??? Without net use /stand/sysinstall to install prepackaged programs from the CD. These are *.tgz. The *tar.gz it tried to fetch is the source for it. If you can get that file, put it in /usr/ports/distfiles then do a make from the proper directory again and the unpacking and compilation will begin. Do a 'make install' to actually install the binaries and man pages etc. While it may be fun to compile things now and then the prepackaged ports are by far the easiest to use. /M ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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