From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 11:24: 0 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D73FD37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:23:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (bay2-f175.bay2.hotmail.com [65.54.247.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DB8343F85 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:23:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from missive@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:23:58 -0800 Received: from 209.130.138.41 by by2fd.bay2.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:23:58 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.130.138.41] From: "Lee Harr" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing ports witout internet Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:23:58 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Mar 2003 19:23:58.0396 (UTC) FILETIME=[C39987C0:01C2E803] 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 >I've always used FreeBSD on machines connected to the internet... so I >have never experienced installing applications offline. > >My question is: Is it possible to install applications (using the port >collection ) on a machine that's not connected to the internet? > >If yes, what are the requirements? Possible? Of course. Fun? Not exactly. Thing is, FreeBSD is designed to be connected to a network. Things are so easy that I constantly amaze people with installing all sorts of software just by typing a few words. Once you disconnect from the network, you have to do all of the dependency checking, downloading, transferring, building, etc manually. It won't be fun. Look at the man pages for the pkg_* tools and see what help is there for determining dependencies and downloading tarballs, but I really think you will be much happier if you can just connect to the network. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message