Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 18:54:41 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Philip Pereira" <info@wintellect.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Traditionalist Installation Message-ID: <15360.16721.989725.169416@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <58822972@toto.iv>
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Philip Pereira <info@wintellect.co.uk> types: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0018_01C174DD.D6988A00 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hey Everyone! Hello Masoch! > Am a "newbie" (part of the forum too) and love FreeBSD. I've had it only = > 3 months, but can already re-compile my kernel (am please with myself). First suggestion - you tend to get better responses if you send one copy of the message as plain text, not one as plain text and one as HTML as you did. Worst of all is to send just the HTML, as many spam filters kick such out. > Just a quick question - I want to learn things the traditional way... > Where can I find some FreeBSD compatible applications and how can I > compile / install them on my system (avoiding the ports collection, > etc.) Well, you can always use google and sourceforge. I'd recommend using the ports collection as a database. I.e. - once you find the port, do "make fetch". The tarball will wind up in /usr/ports/distfiles. You can then untar it, try and figure out which file contains the build and install instructions, read through them and otherwise inflict pain on yourself in various ways. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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