From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 6:10:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2FA4155AD for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 06:10:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.197.58]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAD1300; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:10:07 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA65064; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:50:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:50:22 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nicq for FreeBSD??? Message-ID: <19991004145022.U63946@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On [19991004 04:18], J McKitrick (jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) wrote: >Has anyone gotten this client to compile/run? If so, how? I haven't >tried yet cause i'm new and i don't want to mess anything up. In your home directory create a dir called extract cd to that dir assuming it is a tar.gz package simply do tar xvfz ../wherever/you/placed/the/file.tar.gz and it will extract and gzip -d the contents into a seperate directory in the extract directory [at least if it was packaged in the nicq-x.y way]. Now follow the instructions on how to compile it. Merely compiling it won't damage your system, not `infect' it with crud. Only when you make install it will you make modifications to the base system. Hope this helps to lower your `fear' of trying to compile things =) Kind regards, -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best My name is Legion: for we are many. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message