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From: mi@aldan.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: So how do I compile a port??????
Date: 15 Feb 1996 18:38:16 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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To: Bora <Dejan.Djukic@circ.de.epfl.ch>
Honorable Bora
wrote on Feb 14, 1996 (in article <3122124F.771@circ.de.epfl.ch>):
=I want to install some software that is ported to FreeBSD.
=The handbook says that I should start from the /usr/ports...
=directory. BUT I HAVE NOT THIS DIRECTORY!
Get the port tree from your respected mirror (or any other
mirror) -- use ftp again.
get ports.tar.gz
(The ftp-server in use on most/all the mirrors will tar-gzip the
subtree on the fly). It will not fetch all the source code for
all the ports, but only the information on where the source code
for every particular port can be fetched, and what to do with it.
Total size of ports subtree (compressed) is a few Mb.
Once you ftp it -- uncompress, and follow your manual.
-mi
--
"Windows for dummies"