From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 24 14:37: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-svc.virgin.net (mta1-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.54.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 142FA11A05 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:35:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michael.cugley@virgin.net) Received: from mike-s-box ([194.168.65.135]) by mta1-svc.virgin.net (InterMail v4.00.03.01 201-229-104-101) with SMTP id <19990224223451.KRZG8938.mta1-svc@mike-s-box>; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 22:34:51 +0000 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990224223355.00796100@mail.virgin.net> X-Sender: michael.cugley@mail.virgin.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 22:33:55 +0000 To: Langa Kentane , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" From: Michael Cugley Subject: Re: Ports collection (newbie) In-Reply-To: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F318178030485@za12nt02.mweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:48 PM 2/24/99 +0200, Langa Kentane wrote: >I have been trying (learning) to install a couple of packages on the ports >collection. > >Now after is told me to put the port in that directory I tried to copy the >tar ball to that directory and to no avail. I even put the tarball under >the distfiles directory and it did not help. I tried to put it under the >subdirectory x11 also... to no avail. Try putting it under /usr/ports/distfiles/xc/ - that's where it seems to want it. At least that's where it worked for me :) -- Mike Cugley, lunatic at large http://freespace.virgin.net/michael.cugley/ http://freespace.virgin.net/michael.cugley/Art/ Mike's Doom Quake - http://www.crosswinds.net/dundee/~korvar/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message