Installing programs from FreeBSD ftp server.

2005-07-13 Thread Andrei Iarus
I experience some problems using the FreeBSD ftp server: I can`t really install anything from it. Is there any other posibilities than ports' make install method? What can I do in this case? Thank you in advance. Start your

Re: Installing programs from FreeBSD ftp server.

2005-07-13 Thread Tsampros Leonidas
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:23:19PM -0700, Andrei Iarus wrote: I experience some problems using the FreeBSD ftp server: I can`t really install anything from it. Is there any other posibilities than ports' make install method? What can I do in this case? Thank you in advance. I think you

Re: Installing programs from FreeBSD ftp server.

2005-07-13 Thread Tsampros Leonidas
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:02:52PM -0700, Andrei Iarus wrote: I think you should investigate the pkg_add(1) man page. A quick way to install directly a package (that means a precompiled port) is to use the following syntax: # pkg_add -rv port-name i.e pkg_add -rv