From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 18 19:04:03 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA07457 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 19:04:03 -0700 Received: from jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil ([129.52.114.42]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA07448 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 19:03:59 -0700 Received: (from news@localhost) by jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA00334; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 22:13:35 GMT Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 22:13:35 +0000 () From: Berkeley NEWS! To: Jan Sladky cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: how do i install this In-Reply-To: <199508181750.TAA01836@trick.cs.tu-berlin.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jan, Your going to like this one!!! get into the directory of the software package you would like ported, then type make. i.e. cd /usr/ports/net/chimera make make install Jeff -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - Jeffrey D. Dean SrA - - Computer Technician / Programmer - - Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio - - root@jd-unix.wpafb.af.mil - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Fri, 18 Aug 1995, Jan Sladky wrote: > Hi, > i have mounted a cdrom with some FreeBSD packages from an OS/2 NFS server. > (Yes, i have FreeBSD 2.0 installed). > > Now i can see a PORTS-2.0 directory and in this directory there some sub- > directories sorted by program category (like graphics). > those directories contain (yawn) again directories with the individual ports > (as it seems) like 'seyon'. > > But i can see no .tgz file or something like this. > only three directories named 'files', 'patches' and 'pkg' plus a makefile. > the pkg directory contains COMMENT, DESCR and PLIST. > > I would like to install some software but i'am totally clueless about > how to do it. > > How do i do install for example 'seyon' ??? > (what would be the name i would give pkg_add ?) > > any hints appreciated, > Jan > -- > visit my www home page !!! > >