Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:17:11 +1100 From: Andrew Sinclair <syncnet@ihug.com.au> To: "Ming Tang" <mtang@prairienet.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One file in /usr/bin is missing Message-ID: <01012516171100.00442@viper.syncnet.dynodns.net> In-Reply-To: <000f01c08668$8a2b7b00$06c909c0@chmpgn1.il.home.com> References: <000f01c08668$8a2b7b00$06c909c0@chmpgn1.il.home.com>
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On Thursday 25 January 2001 11:48, you wrote: > Hi - > > I accidentally deleted/modified a file 'troff' which is needed for > man to work while I am doing sysinstall. I am on FreeBSD Release 4.2. > > Could anybody tell me how or where to download a single bin file or anyway > for me to just compile one from its source cose? > > > Ming 1) If you have the FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE CD-ROM, mount it and skip to step 3. 2) Confirm you have the binary distribution for 4.2-RELEASE. If not, create a folder named 4.2-RELEASE/bin and download all the files from the following URL to that folder: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.2-RELEASE/bin 3) Once you have the files, try the following commands: $ su Use "/cdrom" or "4.2-RELEASE/bin" depending on how you retrieved the files: # cd /cdrom # cat bin/bin.?? | tar -zxvf - -C / usr/bin/troff This may take a while since tar has to search the combined contents of all bin.?? files for this file. As for compiling from sources, see the following URL for more information: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html Also try the following port by Jordan Hubbard: net/cvsupit (be warned, sources can save time at the expense of disk space! ;-) -- Regards, Andrew Sinclair (syncman@ihug.com.au) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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