Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 01:37:57 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: dhawk@netcom.com Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Example of How to Use Ports? Message-ID: <199604090837.BAA03489@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199604081740.KAA07361@netcom13.netcom.com> (dhawk@netcom.com)
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* I've been wanting to install tinyfugue on my system, but haven't
* been able to figure out the ports setup. My machine has a T1
* connection (which is how I get to it) but the cd-rom drive died,
* so I've been unable to see if what I need is on the cd-rom.
*
* I've read through the web page stuff about ports, but it didn't quite
* jell for me. What would be very helpful is a walk-through, like
* a 1-2-3 list of
* 1. mkdir /usr/ports
* 2. put something in a file
* etc.
*
* Anything like that available?
If you have a T1 and not a CDROM, just go grab the whole ports tree
today from the ftp site, and you will be quite happy for quite some
time. :)
% ncftp ftp.freebsd.org # or the nearest mirror site
ncftp>cd /pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current # (1)
ncftp>get ports.tar.gz
ncftp>^D
% tar -C /usr -xzf ports.tar.gz # (2)
% cd /usr/ports/<whatever>
% make install clean
(1) You may want to stick to the 2.1R ports tree if you don't have
FreeBSD-current. That tree is 5 months old so you won't get all
the newest greatest ports though (like tinyfugue).
(2) Create a symlink /usr/ports -> <wherever> prior to this if your
/usr is not big enough.
Satoshi
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