Hello,
I have a general question about how portinstall decides what port to
install.
When type "portinstall openoffice", portinstall asks me which of the 4
openoffice ports I would like to install.
When I type "portinstall gimp", portinstall installs graphics/gimp1. Why
not graphics/gimp, or a
Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
On Sunday 24 October 2004 09:27 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
I was just wondering why you would want to use portinstall to
install new software, rather than (using your example port):
cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql-server41
make install
Is using portinstall magical
On Sunday 24 October 2004 09:27 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > I was just wondering why you would want to use portinstall to
> > install new software, rather than (using your example port):
> > cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql-server41
> > make install
> > Is using portinstall magical in some way? I
Matthew Seaman wrote:
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 07:27:16AM -0500, Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
On Sunday 24 October 2004 05:44 am, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote:
I think I'm missing something basic, so if someone could point me
to where that is, I would appreciate it. I been installing
software
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 07:27:16AM -0500, Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
> On Sunday 24 October 2004 05:44 am, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote:
> > I think I'm missing something basic, so if someone could point me
> > to where that is, I would appreciate it. I been installing
> > software using portinstall, but
Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
On Sunday 24 October 2004 05:44 am, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote:
I think I'm missing something basic, so if someone could point me
to where that is, I would appreciate it. I been installing
software using portinstall, but I think I'm missing something
basic because the
On Sunday 24 October 2004 05:44 am, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote:
> I think I'm missing something basic, so if someone could point me
> to where that is, I would appreciate it. I been installing
> software using portinstall, but I think I'm missing something
> basic because there seems to be more guessw
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 06:44:33 -0400, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote
> How do you know what name to use for the portinstall to work? For
> example, I wanted to install MySQL 41. The folders under
> /usr/ports/databases include several variations on my-sql. Among
> others are mysql323-server, mysql40-ser
I think I'm missing something basic, so if someone could point me to
where that is, I would appreciate it. I been installing software using
portinstall, but I think I'm missing something basic because there seems
to be more guesswork involved that I expected there to be.
How do you know what na
