Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:24:00 -0700 From: Fred Condo <fred@condo.chico.ca.us> To: jim flournoy <bsdspaceman@yahoo.com> Cc: satlug@satlug.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1st FreeBSD ports install Message-ID: <20010823232400.B2412@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> In-Reply-To: <20010824060658.38468.qmail@web20202.mail.yahoo.com>; from bsdspaceman@yahoo.com on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:06:58PM -0700 References: <20010824060658.38468.qmail@web20202.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:06:58PM -0700, jim flournoy wrote: > I would like to ask a couple questions about using > ports. I've been downloading PostgreSQL7 for the last > hour or so.. all seems to be going well. I just cd'ed > to /usr/ports/databases/postgresql7 then typed make. > Away it went. Anyway, do I need to do make build, or > make install, or make clean? Thanks.. > > Also, I know debian linux has a 'apt-getupdate' > feature to get the latest version. Can anyone tell me > if FreeBSD have anything similar? Maybe another port? make && make install If you want to save disk space: make && make install && make clean If you want to save more disk space: make && make install && make distclean (the last one deletes the dowload, so don't do it unless you don't mind possibly having to redownload the distfile) -- Fred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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