From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 16 14:14:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F3BE11106 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:13:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990216221441.BWEB2899623.mta2-rme@wocker>; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:14:41 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Nesi Unanaowo Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:13:32 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: /usr/ports question Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <36C9E452.408BE288@net.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990216221441.BWEB2899623.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16 Feb 99, at 13:34, Nesi Unanaowo wrote: > I have just reinstalled my OS (3.0) In the /usr/ports/print > directory for example there are packages that i would like to use > but these packages have not been properly installed even though > they are no longer in the compressed tar format. > How do I get these packages to install properly? Do I need to > reinstall the ports from the CD? An attempt to do a "make" > in the /usr/ports/print directory failed with error messages > suggesting that it did not find the appropriate packages in the > correct format. There was even a suggestion of manually > installing these packages into /usr/ports/disfiles directory which > right now is empty. A couple of things which might help: how to install the base for each port: http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/allports.htm how to get the most recent ports: http://www.freebsdzine.org/articles/newbie.shtml how to install a port by hand: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook26.html good luck -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message