Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 18:06:43 -0700 From: "george vagner" <kf7nn1@cybertrails.com> To: "Vincent Fumo" <vince@fumo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: installing ports Message-ID: <001b01be3135$3b040720$0300a8c0@ginger.kf7nn.com>
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you gotta be connected to the net when you try this also you may want to check your /etc/resolv.conf file so the dns server is listed there so you can resolve hostnames. -----Original Message----- From: Vincent Fumo <vincef@fast.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Saturday, December 26, 1998 12:48 PM Subject: installing ports >Ok...I'm really new to Unix and FreeBSD.. I hope my question isn't too >dumb..But I promise I'll never ask it again since once I learn something, I >almost never forget it. > >I've downloaded a few ports from the freebsd homepage and am having trouble >installing them. Here's what I did and what happened. > >I collected all the ports in a direcory in a regular user directory >(/usr/home/vince). The new directory was named stuff..(ie. >/usr/home/vince/stuff). I then did a list of the direcotry and had a list of >tar files (emacs.tar, etc.). > >The first thing I tried to do was untar the files with this command: > >tar xvf emacs.tar > >At this point, tar tried to unarchive the files into their destinations but >couldn't create the directories. I had to do a 'su' and untar them as the >root. Not sure why I couldn't make the directories..All my permisions were >770 or more. > >Once I had all the files unarchived, I had a bunch of ports in a directory. >One of which looked like this: > >'hostname'% ll >total 4 >drwxr-xr-x 4 root 207 512 Dec 26 15:36 devel >drwxr-xr-x 3 root 207 512 Dec 25 22:46 editors >drwxr-xr-x 4 root 207 512 Dec 26 15:35 emulators >drwxr-xr-x 8 root 207 512 Dec 26 15:36 games >% pwd >/usr/home/vincef/stuff/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports >% > >then I moved into the editors directory and then emacs to find this : > >% cd editors/emacs >% ll >total 4 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root 207 910 Sep 14 06:23 Makefile >drwxr-xr-x 2 root 207 512 Oct 10 1997 files >drwxr-xr-x 2 root 207 512 Oct 10 18:28 patches >drwxr-xr-x 2 root 207 512 Sep 14 06:23 pkg >% > >All seemed well until I tried the make command : > >% make >>> emacs-19.34b.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system. >>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/./. >fetch: prep.ai.mit.edu: Unknown host >>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/gnu/./. >fetch: wuarchive.wustl.edu: Unknown host >>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/pub/gnu/./. >fetch: ftp.kddlabs.co.jp: Unknown host >>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/gnu/./. >fetch: ftp.digex.net: Unknown host >>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.univ-evry.fr/pub/gnu/./. >fetch: ftp.univ-evry.fr: Unknown host >>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/gnu/./. >fetch: ftp.cdrom.com: Unknown host >>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.duke.edu/pub/gnu/./. >fetch: ftp.duke.edu: Unknown host >>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.gamma.ru/pub/gnu/./. >fetch: ftp.gamma.ru: Unknown host >>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.nihon-u.ac.jp/pub/gnu/./. >fetch: ftp.nihon-u.ac.jp: Unknown host >>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles//. >fetch: ftp.freebsd.org: Unknown host >>> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this >>> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again. >*** Error code 1 > >Stop. >*** Error code 1 > >Stop. >*** Error code 1 > >Stop. >*** Error code 1 > >Stop. >*** Error code 1 > >Stop. >*** Error code 1 > >Stop. >*** Error code 1 > >Stop. >% > >The same thing happened when I tried make install.. > >I'm sure this is a simple problem to solve, perhaps another switch in the >'make' command...This happens for all the ports I try. > > >Also, once I get the port installed..is it's use limited to just the user >that installed it? or is is available to all users? If it isnt', how can I >make it that way? > >Thanks for your help :) > > > >---vef--- >vince@fumo.com >http://www.users.fast.net/~vincef > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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