From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 13 10:40:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mnmai05.mn.mediaone.net (nic-245-c10-36.mn.mediaone.net [24.245.10.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B96637B408 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:40:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from orpheus@mnmai05.mn.mediaone.net) Received: (from orpheus@localhost) by mnmai05.mn.mediaone.net (8.9.3/8.9.3-CONDOLAN) id MAA13966; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:40:46 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:40:45 -0500 From: Jeffrey Dunitz To: Gabriel Bastidas Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports ---- bash ---- kde2.x ---- handbook Message-ID: <20010813124045.A10705@lemieux.condolan.asn> Reply-To: orpheus@avalon.net References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from gabriel7_99@hotmail.com on Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 12:05:03PM -0500 X-Blargh: This message is Blargh. (lemieux) X-Crypto-Secret: 225d762b2865446cb716507e35d50ca7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On this day Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 12:05:03PM -0500, the following great wisdom poured forth from the mouth of Gabriel Bastidas, to the stark amazement of all who witnessed: > the ports collection comes in the image iso of aprox. > 650Mb of freebsd_4.3 , or do I need to find out for those? > If you get the ports ISO image, I think you also get the source code for all of the stuff. If you don't plan on installing most or all of the ports, you'd probably be better off just getting the ports.tar.gz file which is about 13 megs. When you unpack the ports tarball, you can cd to the directory of a particular software package you want to install, and type "make install". It will automatically go download the source code and do everything else for you, too. Very nice. > bash comes with the standard instalation, or do i need > to get it, compile it and install it? You can get bash as a precompiled binary package, or you can install it from the ports as described above. Very simple. > > > where to get binary files for kde2.x for freeBSD? > Same thing--it's available as a package or a port. Check out the packages collection on the FTP site. Of course, if you go to the store and buy the book and CD set, you get all this stuff on CD, packages and everything, and you get Greg Lehey's excellent book to help you with stuff. > > the freeBSD handbook is the best way for a "UNIX NEWBIE" > to begin to crawl on FREEBSD SYSTEMS? > Yup, start there, then either get "The Complete FreeBSD", or "the FreeBSD corporate networking guide" (not the exact title). Both are very good books. Also, Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder and lots of other people recently put out a new edition of "the Unix System Administration Handbook". Go to www.admin.com for more info. If you get it from the bookstore, make sure you get the purple one--the red one is old, but some places are still selling it. > with kind regards, > GABRIEL BASTIDAS > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Descargue GRATUITAMENTE MSN Explorer en http://explorer.msn.es/intl.asp > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jeffrey Dunitz | unix | orpheus@avalon.net BOFH Emeritus, Avalon Networks | perl | (651) 686-9974 / http://www.avalon.net/~orpheus | net/sec | Eagan, MN _ / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message