From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 11 23:26:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server1.lordlegacy.org (lordlegacy.org [209.61.182.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 880BD37B40C for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 23:26:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sharon ([216.13.207.127]) by server1.lordlegacy.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA31775; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:37:25 -0500 From: "Stephen Hurd" To: "Rohit Panda" , Subject: RE: problem using ports ?? Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:36:45 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-reply-to: <20010912060341.2137.qmail@web12805.mail.yahoo.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > hi, > iam not getting how to install from ports.i tried first to install bash2 but failed.i went to > the dir /usr/ports/bash2 and did make install (to install from ftp site as i dont have a > cdrom).it says error ,and to copy the port to /usr/ports/distfiles.then i downloaded the file > bash2.tgz ,but still it wont take that.how do i make it to take the file i downloaded(as it is > not taking from the ftp site).can i do it in the traditional way,will there be any problems. > one more thing does freebsd come with any text browser.i tried to install lynx text browser and > there's the same problem.please help me install. > thanx and regards > rohit Well, first off, I assume that /usr/ports/base2 was a typo on your part... that dor shouldn't exist at all... /usr/ports/shells/bash2 would be the correct folder. Second, without knowing the specific error you get, I can't really help troubleshoot the ports install... there IS however another way to install... it won't work for ALL ports as some cannot be distributed as packages. If you su to root, then run /stand/sysinstall and go to configure then packages, then FTP then the nearest mirror then down to shells then select bash-2.05 with the space bar, then press enter , then move to the install and press enter again, it should download and install. If that still doesn't work, try: 'pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.3-stable/All/bash-2.05 .tgz' And get back to us on the actual error message you get. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message