* Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas <[email protected]> [2013-09-15 04:22:08 +0200]:
> Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Philip Guenther <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ... > >>> Yeah, I should have taken a screen capture. I don't use the mail > >>> program too often (its been years since I've had to), so it was not a > >>> priority. > >> > >> Screen capture? In order to convey what was presumably a one line > >> error message? If cut-n-paste won't work, might I suggest just > >> (carefully) typing it? > > Yes, I'm lazy like that. Plus it removes any ambiguity. > > > >> Side note: it's lost on me why you're unable to run the compiler > >> because of tangles with adduser/sudo/whatever. > > Oh, that's my own doing. I need to install wget and subversion to > > fetch the sources. Plus, I want to see how a Clang 3.3 build goes. > > (Compilers and software engineering are my business, not system > > administration). > > $ su - > Password: > # pkg_add subversion llvm > > That's it. You're not into system adminstration yet you want to do > unneeded configuration when you have a precise goal. What do you > expect? > > Re wget, there is ftp(1). > > That's already a lot of mails and a lot of attention for what is > a rather simple problem. Just have a break. All I did when I did my new install this week was : $su # enter password $usermod -G wheel,operator username # obviously my username $visudo use 'j' to scrol down to the line that says users in wheel group can use sudo and uncomment it. Then press 'esc' ( to go into command mode for vi) and press ':' then 'wq' and press return. Simple.
