From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 11 13:39:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA07244 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 13:39:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA07236 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 13:39:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA03276; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 13:39:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 13:39:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "John J. Rushford" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5 Installation Woes In-Reply-To: <32D6E988.78A0@sapphire.alisa.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, John J. Rushford wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a bit of a problem installing ports/packages from the > Walnut Creek 2.1.5 Cdroms. It seems that since the ports and packages > reside on different CD's, the sysinstall utility does not work properly. > I've given up on using it and have begun to install ports/packages > manually. > > When installing manually, I have to copy the ports files off the cdrom > onto the hard disk. I'm using 'make install' and a 'work' directory is > expected and cannot be created naturally on the cdrom. Is there > anything I can do differently to get around this? You should copy the directory for the port you're interested in to the hard disk. Use 'cp -R /cdrom/ports/category/port ~/port' to copy it to your home directory. Then do 'cd port' and 'make' to build the port. > Right now, my biggest problem seems to be the absence of 'imake'. It > doesn't appear to be on any of the CD's and my manual installation > tactics have failed when trying to install 'apsfilter' which depends > on 'trasfig' which depends on 'xpm' which requires 'imake' (Frustration, > Frustration, Frustration). I didn't seem to have so much trouble with > 2.1.0. Imake comes with XFree86. If you edit apsfilter's Makefile, you could strip out the make for trasfig. I'm surprised that's in there; last time I built it xpm wasn't part of the package. You may also try installing the package, which is pre-built. (apsfilter is a shell script anyway) > Anyway, I can't read the FreeBSD newsgroups and get any help as I can't > install 'cnews', 'inn', 'tin', etc... The mailing list is just as good as the newsgroup. (I don't really care that much for news or the newsreaders.) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major