From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 8 19:24: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [63.169.72.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E59137B41E for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 19:24:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g193PhA83538; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 19:25:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 19:25:42 -0800 From: Shawn Ramsey To: Andrew Gould Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: I don't know how to "patch" Message-ID: <20020208192542.A82347@luke.cpl.net> References: <20020209030645.76350.qmail@web13402.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020209030645.76350.qmail@web13402.mail.yahoo.com>; from andrewgould@yahoo.com on Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 07:06:45PM -0800 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 On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 07:06:45PM -0800, Andrew Gould wrote: > I've been reading the instructions for installing > Oracle for Linux on FreeBSD. The instructions are at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-oracle.html > > The documentation states that I should apply certain > patches. I've read the man for patch; but am still > unclear as to how to apply the text in the > instructions. I'm not a programmer or developer; so > please forgive my slowness. > > Any guidance would be appreciated. > > Thanks, Normally you would just save the text of the patch to a file, and do something like this : patch < patchfile You would do this from the root oracle install directory... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message