From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Apr 9 01:38:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA21981 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 01:38:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU [136.152.64.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA21971 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 01:38:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.7.5/8.6.9) id BAA03489; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 01:37:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 01:37:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199604090837.BAA03489@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: dhawk@netcom.com CC: ports@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: <199604081740.KAA07361@netcom13.netcom.com> (dhawk@netcom.com) Subject: Re: Example of How to Use Ports? From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk * 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/ % 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 -> prior to this if your /usr is not big enough. Satoshi