From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 5 16: 3: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nucleus.com (mail.nucleus.com [207.34.93.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD2F037B404 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 16:02:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from TCOOPER (unverified [205.206.131.190]) by mail.nucleus.com (Vircom SMTPRS 1.2.222) with SMTP id for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 17:02:48 -0600 Message-ID: <001601c20ce5$538822b0$be83cecd@TCOOPER> From: "Grant Cooper" To: Subject: newbie-can't install ports Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 17:04:06 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0013_01C20CB3.00309B60" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C20CB3.00309B60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I just tried to install a shell but can't install it. After reading the = documentation I have 2 questions. From default install 4.5 I was asked to install 100 megs worth of ports. = I did this. when I go to the /user/ports/ I see a bunch of files. Are these the = files I compile to install the software? Or do I have to be connected to = the internet to ftp the files because it keeps on getting the error = message, "Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this port manually = into /usr/ports/distfiles/" Second question, Is a script installed by default? ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C20CB3.00309B60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I just tried to install a shell but = can't install=20 it. After reading the documentation I have 2 questions.
 
From default install 4.5 I was asked to = install 100=20 megs worth of ports. I did this.
 
when I go to the /user/ports/ I see a = bunch of=20 files. Are these the files I compile to install the software? Or do I = have to be=20 connected to the internet to ftp the files because it keeps on getting = the error=20 message, "Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this port manually = into=20 /usr/ports/distfiles/"
 
Second question, Is a script = installed by=20 default?
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