Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:43:58 +0000 (MEZ) From: Rainer M Duffner <Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de> To: "Nguyen, Olivier T [AMSTA-AR-CCF-D]" <onguyen@pica.army.mil> Cc: newbi <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ports ? Message-ID: <Marcel-1.46-0217134358-b49Zsav@duffner.surf24.de> In-Reply-To: <53EB67411602D211846900A0C9C7647A083E9C20@mail3.pica.army.mil>
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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
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