From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 20 21:53:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA25651 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 May 1996 21:53:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA25646 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 21:53:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA25435; Tue, 21 May 1996 14:37:06 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605210507.OAA25435@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Ports Collection -- up-to-date To: jrclark@felix.iupui.edu (John Clark) Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 14:37:05 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960520203115.002f4f78@felix.iupui.edu> from "John Clark" at May 20, 96 08:26:43 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Clark stands accused of saying: > > Can someone fill me in on how to use the ports collection? I actually think the handbook does a good job of the whole thing. Get the _port_directory_. In the case of apache, try this : # cd /usr/ports # mkdir www # mkdir distfiles # cd www # ncftp -c ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/www/apache.tar |tar xvf - # cd apache # make install > --John -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[