From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 2 23:14:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA12616 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 23:14:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.atl.bellsouth.net (mail.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA12600 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 23:14:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-71-18.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.71.18]) by mail.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA18210; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 02:14:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id CAA06357; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 02:31:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) To: leer10@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-QUESTIONS@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports directory In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Feb 1999 23:02:02 PST" <19990203070208.7340.qmail@hotmail.com> References: <19990203070208.7340.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.93 on XEmacs 20.4 (Emerald) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-Id: <19990203023133E.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 02:31:33 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 66 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id XAA12604 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Lionel Echeverria" > Hi there! I recently installed FreeBSD 2.2.8 on my PC from the CD-Rom > collection; therefore I also installed a few packages that should appear > in the /usr/ports directory. However, while it appears that the > packages were installed, when I go to the /usr directory, the ports > directory does not appear to be there, so I can't configure things like > Mesa or Kde. Also, when I run /stand/sysinstall, the packages appear > marked with an X, meaning that the packages were in fact installed, but > are nowhere to be found in the /usr directory. Can you help me out with > this problem? Thanks. Hi Lionel, I think you're a bit confused. That's Ok, I am too :-) Think of a FreeBSD package as a precompiled port. There are many ports which don't get made into packages for the CD, but every normal package has a corresponding port it was created from. I say 'normal package' because there are a couple which were either manually assembled or the corresponding 'ports' was never publicly released. So, to answer your question: Don't look in /usr/ports expecting to find packages. Have a peek at /usr/local/bin to see if you have gobs of programs installed in there. You can also look at /var/db/pkg to determine just which packages are installed. HTH, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net > Sincerly, > Lionel Echeverrķa > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > 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