From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 15 07:47:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA05678 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 May 1998 07:47:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA05590 for ; Fri, 15 May 1998 07:47:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA00535; Fri, 15 May 1998 09:47:27 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 09:47:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: Mark Jaffe cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package mess... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Packages should be installed using "pkg_add /path/to/pkg.name.tgz". -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- On Thu, 14 May 1998, Mark Jaffe wrote: > I would like to use the kde window manager, as one of my colleagues uses it and > it looks nicer than the fvwm2 I am using now. (I am on 2.2.6) But I can't for > the life of me figure out why it won't work. I've selected it from packages and > done the extraction. Doesn't that make it available? I tried going into the > /usr/ports/x11/kde directory and doing make install but that returns the error: > > mkdir: /usr/ports/distfiles: File exists > *** Error code 1 > > Stop. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop. > > --------------------------------------- > Mark Jaffe | Build Meister > Ricoh Silicon Valley | (408) 863-8066 > E-Mail: Mark Jaffe > Date: 14-May-98 > Time: 18:36:14 > > This message was sent by XFMail > --------------------------------------- > > 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