Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 11:37:56 -0700 From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Silly question. How to install ports. Message-ID: <F256r8gPAAIwplWdtaG000269a7@hotmail.com>
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>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. pkg_add is different from ports, but still works well. I prefer ports because FreeBSD will compile the app using custom compiler options set in make.conf. To install a port: Go to the directory of the port, like /usr/ports/www/apache and type "make install clean" You can find a port by visiting /usr/ports and typing "make search key=blah" where blah is your keyword. This is all covered in detail in the handbook which you can find at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Charles Burns _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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