From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 26 10:47:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 699A937B404 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:47:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from SAGEONE (adsl-64-219-20-214.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [64.219.20.214]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA09751; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 12:47:26 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020126124723.01831ca0@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 12:47:23 -0600 To: "Charles Burns" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: Silly question. How to install ports. In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 This doesn't *seem* to always work to get the expected version of a program though. One example is Samba. While the port info file indicated that a new version of Samba would be installed, it went to fetch from a number of sources, but was not found for one reason or another until it came to one aource and found a copy in "old_versions".... while the Samba version works okay, it is NOT the current one.... this happened twice. I prefer using ports but don't understand how to make it get the latest version under such circumstances. At 11:37 AM 1.26.2002 -0700, Charles Burns 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. > >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 > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin =================================================== Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com "My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; ....situation excellent! ....I shall attack!" =================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message