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Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 09:56:11 +0200
From: Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org>
To: Patrick Simon <mailsimon@gmx.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: how to install the port collection?
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Hi,

Have a look at the man pages for the ports(7) collection.

man ports
 
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 03:00:13AM -0400, Patrick Simon wrote:
> I already installed the port collection with sysinstall and rebooted my
> system. But what do I have to do in order to use bash now? When I change to
> the directory I get following listing::
> 
> /usr/ports/shells/bash2
> .
> ..
> Makefile
> README.html
> files                    // directory
> patches              // directory
> pkg                    // directory
> 
> -- end --
> 
> And someone told me I have to type the following command to "really" install
> the particular application.
> 
> make install
> 
> but then I get the follwing error message:
> 
> bash-2.03-tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system.
> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/.
> fetch: ftp.gnu.org: Host name lookup failure

When you run make, it looks to see if the source archive for the file is in the
/usr/ports/distfiles directory. If it is not it tries to fetch it from a list
of servers on the Internet. I hope I got this right. It seems that your are either
not connected to the Internet or the /etc/resolv.conf file is not set-up
correctly.

man resolv.conf

Did you install from the cd? There is quite a few pre-compiled packages on the 
distribution cds. This includes bash. You can also get them from ftp.freebsd.org.

> etc. ...
> 
> Well I don't have an internet connection on that computer ... and besides
> that I thought I already installed the port collection with sysinstall?
> So if anyone can help me out, please reply. Thanks a lot.
> 
> mail: mailsimon@gmx.net
> 

Regards.
Willem Brown

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