Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 12:42:18 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> Cc: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree88-contrib install? Message-ID: <19981126124218.P67961@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9811251952240.21024-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>; from Steve Price on Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 07:54:51PM -0600 References: <19981126115625.K67961@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.OSF.4.02.9811251952240.21024-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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On Wednesday, 25 November 1998 at 19:54:51 -0600, Steve Price wrote: > On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Thursday, 26 November 1998 at 11:59:59 +1100, Sue Blake wrote: >>> 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? >> >> Strange, another person round your way just asked me that question. >> It's not a port, it's the original XFree86 source tree for contrib. >> Here's what I told him: >> >>> OK. This is an archive of /usr/X11R6/contrib. You need to do the >>> following things: >>> >>> 1. Unpack the archive into /usr/X11R6/contrib >>> 2. cd /usr/X11R6/contrib >>> xmkmf >>> make Makefiles depend all install > > 'ports/x11/XFree86-contrib' isn't what you are looking for? Well, no, if I had looked for it, I would have found it :-) But it looks like I *should* have been looking for it. > If it is, then all you have to do is a 'make install' in that > directory. Thanks Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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