From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 01:04:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 839A216A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 01:04:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (joel.tallye.com [216.99.199.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 427DF43D49 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 01:04:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lorenl@alzatex.com) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (hosea.tallye.com [127.0.0.1]) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1S14MqS007780 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:04:23 -0800 Received: (from sttng359@localhost) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10/Submit) id j1S14LVh007778 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:04:21 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: hosea.tallye.com: sttng359 set sender to lorenl@alzatex.com using -f Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:04:21 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050228010420.GC1672@alzatex.com> References: <20050226130211.4162005f.albi@scii.nl> <1262756249.20050226141419@wanadoo.fr> <422085C8.8080407@makeworld.com> <1861359872.20050226153635@wanadoo.fr> <42208AFC.6030200@makeworld.com> <1186281086.20050226154821@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1186281086.20050226154821@wanadoo.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 01:04:39 -0000 On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 03:48:21PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Chris writes: > > > If you don't have the ports tree (/usr/ports) on the box, put it there. > > I don't have 300 MB to spare, particularly for something that I will use > so rarely. Is there no machine you can nfs mount a ports tree from? I do it all the time and set the following environment variables in bash: export DISTDIR="$HOME/ports/distfiles" export PACKAGES="$HOME/ports/packages" export WRKDIRPREFIX="$HOME/ports/work" export PORTS_DBDIR="$HOME/ports" Then I have a shared and up-to-date ports tree for all my machines. If I just want to install packages then I use: portupgrade -R -PP www/firefox You should also be able to browse the ftp site by hand or check out freshports.org and get the package that way too, but it doesn't handle dependencies as nicely. Also, if your trying to install the linux version, then make sure linux-XFree86-libs is installed as well as some version of linux_base. > > What's wrong with getting the index from the FTP site when I run > sysinstall? Seems to me that it would guarantee that the ports are > always up to date. > > -- > Anthony > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C