From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 20:43:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF4F16A500 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:43:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F2C43D5F for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:40:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend3.internal (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F206ADA605F for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:40:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.internal ([10.202.2.161]) by frontend3.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:40:03 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: cEZNDuoS1VGOHUEVa0megwsnmR883i3QqJSDzkNHeGVd 1158093544 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCB8AF06C for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:39:03 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:38:58 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <8a0028260609120341v61920cf5p3aad4710ef3bd634@mail.gmail.com> <186816020.20060912160233@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <186816020.20060912160233@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609122139.00187.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:43:01 -0000 On Tuesday 12 September 2006 21:02, ograbme wrote: > I had mounted the ports CD I have and located sudo-1.6.8p12.tar.gz in > the distfiles directory. I copied it over into the /usr/ports/sudo > directory, gunzipped it, and then untarred it. > > I then made sure I was in the directory containing sudo.c and all its > attendent other files and tried the above "make install clean". > Unfortunately it was a no-go. Resultant message I received was: > > "make: Don't know how to make install. Stop" > > Obviously I've done something wrong here ... misstepped or tried to do > the impossible, huh? LOL! Perhaps, The ports collection is a set of recipes that enable the the ports system to automatically fetch the source, extract it, patch it, build and install the result. You can do all this manually, but it's often not straightforward. And the added advantage is that software that's installed through the ports system is also registered in the package database- making it easier to deinstall and upgrade. Before you can build from ports, you need to have ports tree in place, the standard way to do this is by running portsnap.