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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!demos!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: Philipp Mergenthaler <p@hadii609.hadiko.uni-karlsruhe.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Please help me with installing Packages Date: 20 Mar 1997 09:29:23 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5gr01j$558$1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <01bc34fc$f9190260$295b9ac2@nanthony> Reply-To: un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de NNTP-Posting-Host: hadii609.hadiko.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970309; i386 FreeBSD 2.2-970225-GAMMA] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37438 Anthony G. Nikiforov <tfac@glasnet.ru> wrote: > I`v just dounloaded FreeBSD 2.1.7 and trying to install it > Everything OK, exept Packages > I`m installing from dos partition > Could someone help me with filenames and ports > Thanks. Hi, it would be easier to help you, if you would give more information - which commands are you using? What messages do you get? A first guess would be that the names of most packages get truncated to 8.3, when they're temporarily stored on a dos partition. Move the package to e.g. /tmp, rename it to its original name and then run pkg_add foobar.1.2.3.4.tar.gz (or whatever it's called). For ports: get the complete directory with its subdirectories pkg, files and patches, and move it to /usr/ports/... , e.g. /usr/ports/graphics/jpeg . Move the distribution file (in this case jpegsrc.v6a.tar.gz) to /usr/ports/distfiles. cd to /usr/ports/... (where the Makefile is), and execute make. If it compiles without errors, "make install" (you have to be root for this). If it installs without problems, you can delete /usr/ports/distfiles/... again. HTH Bye, Philipp