Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 20:34:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: -=mFp=- <mfpmax@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing ports. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970804203336.6856N-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <33E65A43.43D5429@hotmail.com>
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On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, -=mFp=- wrote: > Is there a way of installing ports without a internet or ftp connection. > I have some front ends and Netscape and my Windoze harddrive and would > like to install them. Is there a way. Sure. You need to figure out which distfile(s) the port is looking for, copy them into /usr/ports/distfiles, then fire off the port. You can find out what it wants by running the port and watching it fail, or look at the port Makefile. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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