From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Feb 17 5:11:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.surf24.de (mail.surf24.de [212.62.192.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558B637B702 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 05:11:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de) Received: from duffner.surf24.de (surf243.surf24.de [212.62.193.243]) by mail.surf24.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA30643; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:11:06 +0100 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:43:58 +0000 (MEZ) From: Rainer M Duffner Subject: Re: ports ? To: "Nguyen, Olivier T [AMSTA-AR-CCF-D]" Cc: newbi In-Reply-To: <53EB67411602D211846900A0C9C7647A083E9C20@mail3.pica.army.mil> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Organization: enigma, http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~enigma X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.46] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue 15 Feb, Nguyen, Olivier T [AMSTA-AR-CCF-D] wrote: > hi all > What is Port in freebsd do ? should i Install it or what should i do with > it ? Install it ! It doesn't take up much space (30 or 40 MB, perhaps), it just takes _long_ to install. The ports-scheme is just a skeleton for installing the real software. You go into one of the directories, perhaps /usr/ports/www/netscape47-communicator and enter make install All files will be fetched from the internet or CDROM. if it was succesful, you can run make clean afterwards, to save space. When I was new to FreeBSD, I thought that with the ports, all the software was already installed and somehow hidden there. :-) cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message