Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 14:49:20 -0400 From: Vince Sabio <vince@vjs.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports have made me lazy Message-ID: <p05200f06c6ed3bd6990d@[192.168.2.102]> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0910031030q7b6c194cm31f3f398c3a3735@mail.gmail.com> References: <p05200f05c6ed08fe112a@192.168.2.102> <4ad871310910031021j137e38a0u429b37b882442f7f@mail.gmail.com> <d7195cff0910031030q7b6c194cm31f3f398c3a3735@mail.gmail.com>
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** At 13:30 -0400 on 10/03/2009, illoai@gmail.com wrote: >2009/10/3 Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>: > > On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Vince Sabio <vince@vjs.org> wrote: > >> I need to install zlib (not zlibc), and AFACT it is not included in ports. >>> When I look at the zlib web site, I see that there are several (not a lot, >>> but several) dependencies for the installation -- and I think, "OH NO, NOT >>> DEPENDENCIES!" Or something like that. >>> > >> I blame it on ports. They have made me lazy. I am a victim. ;-) > > > > They should have meetings once a week or something... :-) If they had them, I'd be a candidate. > >> Anyway, and more to the point, am I missing something? Is zlib really not >>> included in ports? If not, is there an automated/semi-automated means of >>> installing it -- or am I back to the old days of installing dependencies > >> manually? > > > > I'll assume you mean the zlib compression library. Yes, that's probably what it is. > > I found a few with: > > > > cd /usr/ports; make search key="zlib" Worked for me. Muchas gracias. >Based on what I read at http://www.zlib.net/ >The latest version (1.2.3) is in base: >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zlib&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE&format=html >http://tinyurl.com/yksxt9p I don't know if I had a screwy install (I wouldn't put it past the stoopit sysadmin) (oh wait, that's me) or what -- but while I had the man page for zlib, I apparently it wasn't actually installed. Someone is trying to install some web-site-management kit on the machine, and it complained that zlib wasn't installed. Seems to be installed now; I guess, at some point, I'll find out if the web kit installer is happy now. Many thanks for the assistance on this. __________________________________________________________________________ Vince Sabio vince@vjs.org
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