From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 30 19:40:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A68F16A4D9 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:40:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chello084114137224.1.15.vie.surfer.at (chello084114137224.1.15.vie.surfer.at [84.114.137.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 055C043D41 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:40:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from 4711@chello.at) Received: (qmail 45239 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2004 19:40:53 -0000 Received: from matrix010.matrix.net (192.168.123.10) by ns.matrix.net with SMTP; 30 Sep 2004 19:40:53 -0000 From: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:40:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <415BA1A3.3010608@optonline.net> In-Reply-To: <415BA1A3.3010608@optonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409302140.53339.4711@chello.at> cc: bsdfsse Subject: Re: How do you know how to install ports? (like vmware3) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:40:57 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 30 September 2004 08:03, bsdfsse wrote: > For example, I have been trying to install the vmware3 port - and I find > all kinds of tidbits all over the web about little things that need to > be done to get it to work. The information sometimes covers version > 2.0, sometimes 3.2, and sometimes 4.5. If someone just goes in to > /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3 and does a "make install", how would they > know what else to do? > > I'm new to FreeBSD, maybe I am missing something obvious? You probably missed the pkg-message display. In your terminal session, simply scroll back a view lines after the install target has been completed or type 'cat /usr/ports/emulators/vmware3/pkg-message' to view it again. Cheers, ch - -- Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFBXGFF09WjGjvKU74RAqaLAJj3ZwnEzL9UCxsGAVeeEmQUrZFvAJ4z8ZOr bDDv3kkNq9PMl48iusnd4w== =kpjd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----