From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 19 10: 6:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from euphoria.confusion.net (dementia.confusion.net [205.166.119.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0970E37B408 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:06:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuyman@euphoria.confusion.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by euphoria.confusion.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f6JH6SZ26687; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:06:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:06:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Laurence Berland To: Jonathan Hilgeman Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Bash install also installs seti@home??? In-Reply-To: <5D90F61EB6FDD411836500508B137F1A2689A0@mailsvr.ecx.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That's not how to install ports. You want to go to the directory of the port you want (in the case of bash, shells/bash2 ) and type make install. Typing make install in /usr/ports tells the system to install all the ports. astro starts with an a. L: On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Jonathan Hilgeman wrote: > I just did an install of FreeBSD-4.2-RELEASE and was trying to install the > bash shell. So I went into /usr/ports and typed: > > make install bash2 > > However, it started to install lots of stuff. It installed > tcl/tk/Xfree86/X-Windows and a bunch of other stuff (I wasn't watching the > whole way through), and is installing packages in the "astro" directory as I > write this. It just finished installing seti@home, I believe. What the heck > is it doing, and why do I need all of this junk just for the bash shell? I'm > assuming it's getting installed because a bigger program needs a smaller > program which needs a smaller program, etc... but this is ridiculous. It's > already consumed over 400 megs. Someone please help... > > - Jonathan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Laurence Berland http://www.isp.northwestern.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message