From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 8 4:58:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB3037B424 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 04:58:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vedette by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13XMmo-000D88-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 14:57:38 +0300 Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 14:57:38 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to get Minicom installed Message-ID: <20000908145738.F22458@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <85256952.00554270.00@Deimos.smed.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <85256952.00554270.00@Deimos.smed.com>; from Joe.Warner@smed.com on Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:33:40AM -0600 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en fr X-Editor: Pico http://www.washington.edu/pine X-Location: Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa X-Uptime: 2:49PM up 11 days, 3:40, 9 users, load averages: 0.28, 0.40, 0.49 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Joe.Warner@smed.com : [000906 18:32]: Joe.Warner@smed.com> Joe.Warner@smed.com> Joe.Warner@smed.com>Hi, Joe.Warner@smed.com> Joe.Warner@smed.com> I've been trying all morning to get minicom from /usr/ports/comms/minicom Joe.Warner@smed.com>installed and can't get it to work. Joe.Warner@smed.com> Joe.Warner@smed.com>First, I tried "make install" from /usr/ports/comms/minicom and it couldn't Joe.Warner@smed.com>find it at any of the ftp sites listed in the makefile. Joe.Warner@smed.com> Joe.Warner@smed.com>Next, I downloaded a newer version of it (1.83) from ftp.freebsd.org but Joe.Warner@smed.com>got the following message after unpacking it Joe.Warner@smed.com>and typing "make" and "make install" from the unpacked minicom directory: Joe.Warner@smed.com>Variable PKGNAME is recursive. Joe.Warner@smed.com> Joe.Warner@smed.com>Finally, I tried downloading and installing minicom-1.83.1.src.tar.gz from Joe.Warner@smed.com>www.pp.clinet.fi/~walker/minicom.html Joe.Warner@smed.com>but couldn't get that to work either. Joe.Warner@smed.com> Joe.Warner@smed.com>Also, I've probably rendered /usr/ports/comms/minicom useless because after Joe.Warner@smed.com>I download the tar file from ftp.freebsd.org and couldn't get it to Joe.Warner@smed.com>install, I copied the entire contents of the unpacked minicom directory Joe.Warner@smed.com>over the top of /usr/ports/comms/minicom, thinking I could do this and then Joe.Warner@smed.com>cd to /usr/ports/comms/minicom, type "make install" and it would work but Joe.Warner@smed.com>it didn't. Joe.Warner@smed.com> Joe.Warner@smed.com>Could someone help me get this port installed? I'd really appreciate some Why did you not use /stand/sysinstall?? Well, you could extract the files to a temporary directory and look at some README in there.... I also think ( I am not sure!) that you can safely go into the /usr/ports/comm/minicom and do a make clean; make deinstall; make reinstall. That should clean the mess.. Alternatively, put the downloaded file ( a binary)in there and do "gunzip < file.tar.tgz | tar xvf -" But /stand/sysinstall does it more painlessly.. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi, KENYA Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message