Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:25:08 -7 From: "Jim McIver" <jmciver@lmtribune.com> To: Dru <genisis@istar.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/make Message-ID: <3A93CFC9.21120.9AF8C26@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102211605490.51899-100000@x1-6-00-00-b4-94-9d-3f.kico1.on.home.com> References: <3A93BE3A.5879.96AEFF0@localhost>
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Dru, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I've been re-reading the section on installing ports and the make command until the pages are worn out. rehash isn't even the index in the book I just got. Onward and ho ward. Crontab fix and a port installed in same day. hurrah! thx again, > > Hi Jim, > > General rule of thumb: it it's a "tgz", it's a package; if it's a > "tar.gz" its a port. > > Sounds like you successfully installed the package using the > "pkg_add" command. If you're in the C shell, you'll have to type > "rehash" before your shell will be aware that mtools is now on the system. > > Dru > > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Jim McIver wrote: > > > Having trouble following the Complete FreeBSD's book's > > instructions on how to install a port and run the make. > > > > My machine doesn't have a cdrom, so I copied the files to an internal > > ftp site to be able to get to the files to the Freebsd machine. I wanted > > to try the mtools(mdir, etc..) so I could try to read a dos floppy. Right > > now is say's command not found. Of course I've tried other > > port/make's and nothing seems to work correctly. (Got to be a user > > error on my part) > > > > Ftp'ed the file named mtools-3.9.7.tgz from the cdrom to the freebsd > > machine. Ran "pkg_add mtools-3.9.7.tgz" this completed without any > > errors. Went to /usr/ports/emulators/mtools and ran "make" > > Error comes back saying "mtools-3.9.7.tar" is not in the > > /usr/ports/distfiles area....so I gzip -d the mtools-3-9.7.tgz and copied > > the resulting mtools-3.9.7.tar file into the /usr/ports/distfiles > > directory so make could find it and tried make again. > > > > Same error message. > > > > I have ver 4.2(I think)of freebsd. It doesn't connect to the internet yet > > so it fails when trying to grab files from the web site. > > > > Is there a step by step instruction sheet for installing ports and > > running the make and make install that work? > > > > Of course I'm not sure what I'd do if make install worked, does that > > mean the program installed and is ready to run? > > > > Regards, > > > > Jim McIver > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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