From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 6:42:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E4E714C37 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 06:42:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11Y8NR-000Lcv-00; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:42:05 +0100 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA08398; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:42:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:42:04 +0100 (BST) From: J McKitrick To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nicq for FreeBSD??? In-Reply-To: <19991004145022.U63946@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks. Do you know if it works pretty well? jcm On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: |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 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message