From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 25 17:00:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06359 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:00:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06348 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:00:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA06017; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 12:00:06 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19981126115959.31848@welearn.com.au> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:59:59 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: XFree88-contrib install? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Could someone bring me up to speed on how XFree86-contrib gets installed? I think it's available as a port but not a package. Is it also an option when XFree is chosen during FreeBSD installation, or do most newbies get it automatically? I've made a fvwm2rc for absolute beginners, a single file that will give them a friendly desktop to start with and to learn from. All instructions are in the one file, including how to change the file's contents later on, and a _brief_ summary of how to get that far, starting "1. Install FreeBSD". Since what I've set up won't work without the contrib programs I have to make sure new users know how to get them (even if I don't :-). My contrib programs are installed (2.2.6-STABLE), but it doesn't appear in /var/db/pkg, and somebody running 2.2.7-RELEASE has the man pages for those programs, just no binaries. Neither of us know how it got there, or didn't, or whether any of this changes for later versions. Sorry to pester you guys here but I need right answers, not guesses. This has to work for FreeBSD 3.x which I don't have access to. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message