On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 12:59, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Hasse wrote: > > >On Wednesday 07 July 2004 02.05, Adam Smith wrote: > > > > > >>On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:02:42AM +0200, Hasse said: > >> > >> > >>>Thx Adam, I'll certainly will do that. > >>>Shame on ME , > >>>and my faith in the FreeBSD porters. > >>>Offcourse I should have checked the ports first. > >>>Didn't even imagine it was allready ported. Found out about the > >>>Lin-version today. ( yesterday ) > >>>Thx again for bringing this to my attension. > >>> > >>> > > And a big "thanks" to Alexander Neidlinger, as well. :-) > > > >>A tip that I often use to find something in the ports is to cd to it using > >>this method: > >> > >>cd /usr/ports/*/skype > >> > >>If there is only one match, you'll end up in the appropriate directory. If > >>there's more than one match in several directories, you'll have to find it > >>yourself :) > >> > >> > >Thx for the tip. > >I usually go to > >http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html > >and search for the ports I'm looking for, but as said, I didn't even dreamed > >of this program was allready ported. Thought it was brand a new lin-version. > >I've used it before in windows-version. > >It's now installed and working as expected, from ports. > >But, again thanks for your help and kindness. > >/ Hasse. > > > > > > And then, the old tried && true: > > $cd /usr/ports && make search key=skype >
like this [EMAIL PROTECTED] (~)ttyp0 # cd /usr/ports/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/usr/ports)ttyp0 # make search key=skype Port: skype-0.90.0.4 Path: /usr/ports/net/skype Info: P2P VoIP software Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] B-deps: XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_7 expat-1.95.7 fontconfig-2.2.3,1 freetype2-2.1.7_3 imake-4.3.0_2 perl-5.8.4 pkgconfig-0.15.0_1 R-deps: XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_7 expat-1.95.7 fontconfig-2.2.3,1 freetype2-2.1.7_3 imake-4.3.0_2 linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.0_2 linux-expat-1.95.5_1 linux-fontconfig-2.1_1 linux_base-7.1_7 linux_base-8-8.0_4 perl-5.8.4 pkgconfig-0.15.0_1 -- Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer --------------------------------- Bytecraft Systems & Entertainment P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 M: +61 417 319 256 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit us on the web http://www.bytecraftsystems.com http://www.bytecraftentertainment.com --------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --------------------------------------------------------------- **************************************************************** This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal. **************************************************************** _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
