From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 12 6:40:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.omn.net (atlantis.omn.net [212.158.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB0037B64D for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 06:40:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@enets.co.uk) Received: from enets.co.uk (sabre3.sja.co.uk [212.158.68.7]) by mail.omn.net (8.10.1/8.10.1/Omnitech-2.0.0) with ESMTP id e6CEgiF24850; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:42:44 GMT Message-ID: <396C7504.3C53ED67@enets.co.uk> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:39:16 +0100 From: Steve Abraham Reply-To: steve@enets.co.uk Organization: eNets Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: daniel.cuthbert@uk.psi.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing software References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel Cuthbert wrote: > > Hi all > > im a bit confused when it comes to installing packages in FreeBSD > on the ports homepage, if you download say the vmware package, it comes down > as a tar file > now where do i untar this to? > > also what was the ports collection i installed on installation? does that > contact the package aswell > > sorry if this seems confusing but im kinda confused aswell at the mo If you find the package you require under /usr/ports/whatever, you can run 'make' / 'make install' from there to install the package. It will automatically download the package if your box has internet access, configure it, compile it and install it. Regards, S. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- FREE LOCAL RATE DIALUP INTERNET ACCESS Now available nationwide Ask for details, or visit http://www.freedialups.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Steve Abraham eNets Ltd UK steve (at) enets.co.uk http://www.eNets.ltd.uk T: +44 (0)1463 861311 F: +44 (0)8702 840220 M: +44 (0)7770 332765 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message