From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 27 8:56: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from apoq.skynet.be (apoq.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DFD037B53F for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 08:55:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bart.lateur@skynet.be) Received: from dialup197.gent.skynet.be (dialup197.gent.skynet.be [195.238.9.197]) by apoq.skynet.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 5595D1F22D for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:55:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:47:38 GMT Organization: MediaMind Message-ID: <3908607e.168729@relay.skynet.be> References: <20000427144118.597.qmail@web1404.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20000427144118.597.qmail@web1404.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/16.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 07:41:18 -0700 (PDT), todd ritzka wrote: >I was wondering if i could get some help installing >packages over the ftp site. a semi step by step format >would be helpful. details would also be apprechiated, >but little to no technical jargon, because im a >newbie! Meet the ports. For an intro text on an external site (often best for newbies), see . For a FreeBSD.org originated site, see . If you have an internet connection on your FreeBSD box, you can let "make" download the distribution. If you don't, download the .tar.gz file yourself, and put it in the /usr/ports/distfiles directory, before you do "make install", in the ports subdirectory of your package. I'm not sure this is the poper way, but it works. HTH, Bart. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message