Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:42:27 +0000 From: Barnaby Scott <bds@waywood.co.uk> To: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wine without X Message-ID: <49CCE5D3.6020900@waywood.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <F66E1C2954CA15ADC71114F7@utd65257.utdallas.edu> References: <49CB957F.30807@waywood.co.uk> <F66E1C2954CA15ADC71114F7@utd65257.utdallas.edu>
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Paul Schmehl wrote: > > So, you *could* do this: > su - to root > Download the wine tarball and untar it > Go in to the wine directory and type the following, in order: > ./configure --without-x > make depends > make > make install > > That will install wine on your system without X. Figuring out how to > get your rendering binary to run is an exercise for you. :-) > > I left wine without x installed on my system. If you have questions, I > *may* be able to help. > Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible for one reason or another, place to download application source to? Presumably you don't want it mixed up in the ports distfiles, or in the system's source directory. I know this sounds very silly, and the answer might be 'wherever you like', but I do like to learn the conventions which usually have good reasons behind them.
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