From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 3 18:49:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BEF0106568F for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 18:49:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@vjs.org) Received: from mail.vjs.org (static-71-126-154-132.washdc.fios.verizon.net [71.126.154.132]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21BA68FC1D for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 18:49:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.102] (71.126.154.142) by mail.vjs.org with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 3.1.5) for ; Sat, 3 Oct 2009 14:49:25 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <4ad871310910031021j137e38a0u429b37b882442f7f@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Eudora 10.0b19 for Cray SV-2 (beta release), unregistered Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 14:49:20 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Vince Sabio Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: Re: ports have made me lazy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:49:34 -0000 ** At 13:30 -0400 on 10/03/2009, illoai@gmail.com wrote: >2009/10/3 Glen Barber : > > On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Vince Sabio 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