From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 25 23:13:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A52037B400 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 23:13:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g0Q7D8864592; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:13:08 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200201260713.g0Q7D8864592@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Alvaro Gil Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Silly question. How to install ports. In-Reply-To: From: Chris Fedde Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 00:13:08 -0700 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 Sat, 26 Jan 2002 01:52:23 -0500 Alvaro Gil wrote: +------------------ | I am having trouble installing ports. I am trying to update apache | to 1.3.22. I downloaded the tarball and did a pkg_add | apacheblabla.tar. it made a new group called www and quit. | | Is this how one usually installs ports? How do you install a port in | the ports directory or if its not in a tarball? I know this info is | online somewhere but I cannot seem to find it right now. | | Thanks. +------------------ If you are talking about a package tarball then what you did should have worked. If you are talking ports as in /usr/ports. Then cd to the directory containing the target and do "make install" as root. then sit back and watch the ftp and compiler messages fly. If you are talking about a package and you are running a -release system then you might want to use the /stand/sysinstall application configure>>packages>>Install from an FTP server If you are talking about a source tarball then gzcat blabal.tar.gz | ar -xvf - cd blabla ./configure make make install Good Luck! -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message