From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 27 13:17:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA04504 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:17:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA04487 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:17:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA00558; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:14:59 -0800 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:14:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: garey mills cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to get the ports ? In-Reply-To: <199602270956.KAA02722@rigel.luznet.es> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, garey mills wrote: > I just installed FreeBSD 2.0 over the network (sort of, > the first thing I did was to download the distribution from a > mirror site, and then install over the network from the distribution > I had downloaded). The thing is that I don't have a ports directory, > and I can't see from the documentation how to get the ports. It's in the handbook. All you have to do is download the directory of the port you want (on ftp.freebsd.org you can do `get .tar.gz' and get it as a tarball). Expand on your machine, and type "make all install" and enjoy. It will pull the source file automatically. If it has trouble, mkdir /usr/ports/distfiles and put the file in question in there. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major