From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 7 21:16:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA09984 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 21:16:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uniqsite.uniqsite.com. (timm@uniqsite.com [206.14.149.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA09966 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 21:16:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from timm@uniqsite.com) Received: from localhost (timm@localhost) by uniqsite.uniqsite.com. (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA00986; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 21:16:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from timm@uniqsite.com) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 21:16:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Moony To: anthony@sohopros.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: downloading a port. In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980405195120.008f49a0@pop.flash.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 5 Apr 1998 anthony@sohopros.com wrote: > Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 19:51:22 -0500 > From: anthony@sohopros.com > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: downloading a port. > > I would like to down load the port for netscape v4.05, but > when I go to the FTP directory: > /pub/FreeBSD/ports-2.2.5/www/netscape4/ at ftp.freebsd.org > there arn't any ....tar.gz files. Shouldn't there be? > Can someone give me some direction? > It's a port, not a package. You'll do: ftp ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports-2.2.5/www/netscape4.tar Then you'll mkdir netscape and move the file there: mkdir netscape cd netscape tar xvf ../netscape4.tar and then make * You'll need to define a couple of Netscape variables before you'll be able to run it. Read the document that came with Netscape. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message