From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 11:41:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB36152A5 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:41:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fredrik.carlen@telia.com) Received: from d1o29.telia.com (d1o29.telia.com [194.236.214.241]) by mailc.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA00811 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:41:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from bozo.skeleton.se (t3o29p15.telia.com [194.236.215.15]) by d1o29.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA02296 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:41:30 +0100 (CET) From: Fredrik Carlen Reply-To: fredrik.carlen@telia.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Ports versus packages Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:38:13 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99111020442400.01521@bozo.skeleton.se> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What does happen when you do pkg_add? I thought I had this figured out, but obviously, I haven't... I thought packages were pre-compiled, and that ports were like adapting the software to install on FreeBSD, only done by somebody else than me (who has a very rudimentary knowledge of this anyway). I have tried, unsuccessfully, to get some info on the process of "installing" UNIX software (although I know this is called porting...), does anybody know some free way of getting this info? I really can't afford to buy that Gerg Lehey book "Porting UNIX software" right now, and I don't even know whether I need it or not. I can solve a number of intricate mathematic problems, but I can't get Lynx to install properly... :( /Fredrik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message