From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 26 10:58:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AFF937B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 10:58:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA26843E8A for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 10:58:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yid@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 5547 invoked by uid 417); 26 Aug 2002 17:58:27 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 26 Aug 2002 17:58:27 -0000 Received: from planb ([216.194.1.44]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:58:26 -0600 Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:01:26 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: floess@earthlink.net Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports Message-Id: <20020826140126.6e1638e0.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Plan B Software Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.1claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 22:10:59 -0700 wrote: > I was just trying to install my first port, and started to hit a few > road blocks. For the most part I managed to solve my probs, but I was Run "make install && make clean" while in the proper directory and connected to the internet, or having a CD-ROM that has all of the port's tarballs mounted. The BSD make program is set up to automatically fetch the program and all of it's dependencies from the internet and compile it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message