From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 11:48: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B687715403 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:47:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11ldiY-000Duw-00; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:47:42 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA37199; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:47:41 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:47:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Fredrik Carlen Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports versus packages In-Reply-To: <99111020442400.01521@bozo.skeleton.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well where are you installing from? CDROM? FTP? The ports need to be compiled, of course, but both Lynx and Lyx (not sure which one you meant...) *should* be in the packages option from sysinstall. Lynx is a browser, Lyx is a typesetting program especially suited to math. Anyway, packages end in .tgz and are installed with pkg_add. Ports are found in /usr/ports and are installed with make, make install. Both *should* put info in the package database /var/db so that pkg_delete will remove either. Although, i think ports also let you use make deinstall sometimes. What problem are you having with Lynx/Lyx? Like they say here on the list: detail, details, details !! On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Fredrik Carlen wrote: >What does happen when you do pkg_add? >I thought I had this figured out, but obviously, I haven't... > >I thought packages were pre-compiled, and that ports were like adapting the >software to install on FreeBSD, only done by somebody else than me (who has a >very rudimentary knowledge of this anyway). > >I have tried, unsuccessfully, to get some info on the process of "installing" >UNIX software (although I know this is called porting...), does anybody know >some free way of getting this info? I really can't afford to buy that Gerg >Lehey book "Porting UNIX software" right now, and I don't even know whether I >need it or not. > >I can solve a number of intricate mathematic problems, but I can't get Lynx to >install properly... :( > >/Fredrik > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -jonathon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message