From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 14 23:00:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 6DD8116A474 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:00:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eric@mikestammer.com) Received: from smtp106.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp106.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0F6043D48 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:00:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eric@mikestammer.com) Received: (qmail 12740 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2006 23:00:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gondolin.mikestammer.com) (mikestammer@sbcglobal.net@69.213.130.136 with login) by smtp106.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Jun 2006 23:00:52 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gondolin.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A0816C; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:00:51 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mikestammer.com Received: from gondolin.mikestammer.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gondolin.middleearth.mikestammer.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ISP98ThEc6wp; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:00:49 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.0.20] (unknown [192.168.0.20]) by gondolin.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6540681; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:00:49 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <44909520.9060405@mikestammer.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:00:48 -0500 From: Eric User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Trying to install Ethereal 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: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:00:53 -0000 Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote: >> why arent you using the port? >> >> /usr/ports/net/ethereal >> or >> /usr/ports/net/tethereal >> or >> /usr/ports/net/ethereal-lite >> >> > A couple of reasons: > > 1) Installing from source is cool. > 2) I didn't know there was a port. > > I'll check into whether or not I installed the port, but if I didn't, do I fix that using "sysinstall"?? > assuming your ports tree is current (if not, do a man portsnap and use that), you just need to: # cd /usr/ports/net/ethereal # make install;make clean then wait for the build to commence. you are still building from source, so it has the cool factor, its just that the port will handle all the dependencies for you. if you arent sure what the ports tree is, check out the handbook. Good luck! Eric