On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:48:20PM -0700, Preston Crawford wrote: > I have what may seem like an odd question. I have a new FreeBSD 4.9 system that I > want to install OpenOffice and some other stuff on. Most of the stuff left to > install is pretty big and thus will be hard to download via ports over my dial-up > connection (yes, I use dial-up). I know it's possible to download tarballs and drop > them into the ports tree somewhere so you don't have to do the download. I'm > wondering how easy this is, though. By that I mean, if I wanted to say install > Tomcat, Java, OpenOffice, etc. in this manner how would I know which package to > download? And from where? I'd like to download these at work, burn them on a CD and > take them home. However, since I'm not in front of my machine I don't know where > ports will be looking for these files. Anyone know? > > Preston > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
-- cd to, e.g. /usr/ports/editors/openoffice, look at the distinfo file. __ robert tan _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
