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Subject: Re: ports (was: Ugly Huge BSD Monster)
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At 02:48 PM 9/4/2003, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
  
>cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/ctwm && make install clean
>or 
>pkg_add -r ctwm

Using /stand/sysintall, I searched the FreeBSD packages for
4.8-RELEASE and did not find it (even in the "ALL" list).
So, I brought in the tarball, which seemed to have a mechanism
to configure the code for FreeBSD. But that mechanism did not
work.

>Did you try to compile KDE from the raw tarball too?  

No.

--Brett Glass