Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:01:44 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? Message-ID: <956914133.20050227100144@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <20050227045510.M67328@reiteration.net> References: <20050226130211.4162005f.albi@scii.nl> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEIMFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <1262756249.20050226141419@wanadoo.fr> <20050226142726.M5182@reiteration.net> <43908349.20050226154151@wanadoo.fr> <20050227045510.M67328@reiteration.net>
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John writes: > I suppose I'm nit-picking here, but you would cron it rather than running it > by hand. It's mostly the space that I prefer not to part with. > How much space have you got to play with? About 2 GB total remaining on /usr. Just installing X stuff gobbled up a few hundred megabytes, it seems. > If space is tight, running make > distclean after make install helps, as does periodically deleting the contents > of /usr/ports/distfiles Does pkg_add do this? > [0] if you mean, by "pull the index from an ftp site" cd /usr/ports && make index I meant running /stand/sysinstall and selecting an FTP site as the "installation media" for the software. It always downloads some sort of index when I do that, which I assume is an up-to-date list of all the ports available. -- Anthony
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