Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 14:49:46 -0500 From: "Vincent Fumo" <vincef@fast.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: installing ports Message-ID: <000101be3108$e52bb9a0$0201a8c0@gamer.vef.net>
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Ok...I'm really new to Unix and FreeBSD.. I hope my question isn't too dumb..But I promise I'll never ask it again since once I learn something, I almost never forget it. I've downloaded a few ports from the freebsd homepage and am having trouble installing them. Here's what I did and what happened. I collected all the ports in a direcory in a regular user directory (/usr/home/vince). The new directory was named stuff..(ie. /usr/home/vince/stuff). I then did a list of the direcotry and had a list of tar files (emacs.tar, etc.). The first thing I tried to do was untar the files with this command: tar xvf emacs.tar At this point, tar tried to unarchive the files into their destinations but couldn't create the directories. I had to do a 'su' and untar them as the root. Not sure why I couldn't make the directories..All my permisions were 770 or more. Once I had all the files unarchived, I had a bunch of ports in a directory. One of which looked like this: 'hostname'% ll total 4 drwxr-xr-x 4 root 207 512 Dec 26 15:36 devel drwxr-xr-x 3 root 207 512 Dec 25 22:46 editors drwxr-xr-x 4 root 207 512 Dec 26 15:35 emulators drwxr-xr-x 8 root 207 512 Dec 26 15:36 games % pwd /usr/home/vincef/stuff/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports % then I moved into the editors directory and then emacs to find this : % cd editors/emacs % ll total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 207 910 Sep 14 06:23 Makefile drwxr-xr-x 2 root 207 512 Oct 10 1997 files drwxr-xr-x 2 root 207 512 Oct 10 18:28 patches drwxr-xr-x 2 root 207 512 Sep 14 06:23 pkg % All seemed well until I tried the make command : % make >> emacs-19.34b.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system. >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/./. fetch: prep.ai.mit.edu: Unknown host >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/gnu/./. fetch: wuarchive.wustl.edu: Unknown host >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/pub/gnu/./. fetch: ftp.kddlabs.co.jp: Unknown host >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/gnu/./. fetch: ftp.digex.net: Unknown host >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.univ-evry.fr/pub/gnu/./. fetch: ftp.univ-evry.fr: Unknown host >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/gnu/./. fetch: ftp.cdrom.com: Unknown host >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.duke.edu/pub/gnu/./. fetch: ftp.duke.edu: Unknown host >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.gamma.ru/pub/gnu/./. fetch: ftp.gamma.ru: Unknown host >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.nihon-u.ac.jp/pub/gnu/./. fetch: ftp.nihon-u.ac.jp: Unknown host >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles//. fetch: ftp.freebsd.org: Unknown host >> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this >> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again. *** Error code 1 Stop. *** Error code 1 Stop. *** Error code 1 Stop. *** Error code 1 Stop. *** Error code 1 Stop. *** Error code 1 Stop. *** Error code 1 Stop. % The same thing happened when I tried make install.. I'm sure this is a simple problem to solve, perhaps another switch in the 'make' command...This happens for all the ports I try. Also, once I get the port installed..is it's use limited to just the user that installed it? or is is available to all users? If it isnt', how can I make it that way? Thanks for your help :) ---vef--- vince@fumo.com http://www.users.fast.net/~vincef To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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