From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 6 13:07:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25812 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:07:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA25545 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:06:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA18994; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:06:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:06:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: anthony@sohopros.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: downloading a port. In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980405195120.008f49a0@pop.flash.net> 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 On Sun, 5 Apr 1998 anthony@sohopros.com wrote: > I would like to down load the port for netscape v4.05, but > when I go to the FTP directory: > /pub/FreeBSD/ports-2.2.5/www/netscape4/ at ftp.freebsd.org > there arn't any ....tar.gz files. Shouldn't there be? No; the port just says where to get the source file and how to build it. Fetch the port by running cd /pub/FreeBSD/ports-2.2.5/www get netscape4.tar Then extract with tar xzf netscape4.tar Then run cd netscape4 make su make instal Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message