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Date:      Wed, 24 Feb 1999 22:33:55 +0000
From:      Michael Cugley <michael.cugley@virgin.net>
To:        Langa Kentane <LKentane@mweb.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Ports collection (newbie)
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19990224223355.00796100@mail.virgin.net>
In-Reply-To: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F318178030485@za12nt02.mweb.com>

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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 :)


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