From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 12:57:42 2003 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 8443816A4CF for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:57:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail4.nshosts.com (mail4.nshosts.com [216.58.174.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E91E43FCB for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:57:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from me@prestoncrawford.com) Received: from prestoncrawford.com (unverified [216.58.174.139]) by mail4.nshosts.comfor ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:48:20 -0700 Message-ID: X-EM-APIVersion: 2, 0, 0, 8 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) From: "Preston Crawford" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:48:20 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Downloading OOo, other ports outside of the system? 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: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:57:42 -0000 I have what may seem like an odd question=2E I have a new FreeBSD 4=2E9 system that I want to install OpenOffice and some other stuff on=2E Most of the stuff left to install is pretty big and thus will be hard to download via ports over my dial-up connection (yes, I use dial-up)=2E I know it's possible to download tarballs and drop them into the ports tree somewhere so you don't have to do the download=2E I'm wondering how easy this is, though=2E By that I mean, if I wanted to say install Tomcat, Java, OpenOffice, etc=2E in this manner how would I know which package to download? And from where? I'd like to download these at work, burn them on a CD and take them home=2E However, since I'm not in front of my machine I don't know where ports will be looking for these files=2E Anyone know= ? Preston