RE: doubts on FreeBSD

2005-11-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Cstdenis Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 3:42 AM To: Anirban Adhikary; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: doubts on FreeBSD Same as any other *nix operating system. Basically just follow

Re: doubts on FreeBSD

2005-11-22 Thread Cstdenis
Same as any other *nix operating system. Basically just follow the installation instructions with the program. Common basic ones are... untar it tar -zxf file.tar.gz cd into the extracted dir cd file/ run the configure script if there is one. ./configure and compile it with make or if

RE: doubts on FreeBSD

2005-11-22 Thread simon butsana
Hi, copy the tar ball somewhere, and decompress it using tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz Usually a directory with name filename will be created and you need to go there using cd filename There you usually find a file README or INSTALL with all necessary instructions. You