Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 11:21:13PM -0500, Krikket wrote: Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the various versions of freeBSD (3.x, 4.x, and 5.x) are still being worked. Needless to say, 5.x is the bleeding edge, but 4.x hasn't been left to go stale. (Or else how would security patches get

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-02 Thread Krikket
I'm going to hold off on replying for a day, while I give this stuff a shot, but this part does raise a question for me... On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: Those packages are what goes onto the FTP sites, and a sample of the most popular ones go into the install CDs -- there's *far*

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:34:33AM -0500, Krikket wrote: I'm going to hold off on replying for a day, while I give this stuff a shot, but this part does raise a question for me... On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: Those packages are what goes onto the FTP sites, and a sample of

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-02 Thread Dave
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 03:34:33 -0500 (EST), you wrote: I got my copy of FreeBSD by downloading the isos. CD 1 2 and mini. That's all that was available. Disc 1 is the install disc. Disc 2 is the repair/recovery disc Mini is disk 1 stripped down to more or less bare minimum. It's all you need

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-02 Thread Scott W
Krikket wrote: On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Roop Nanuwa wrote: Krikket wrote: I've done a brand-new install of FreeBSD (4.9), and am a fresh user to this flavor of *nix. Welcome, we hope you enjoy your stay :). Thank you! The install went more or less without a hitch. For some

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-01 Thread Roop Nanuwa
Krikket wrote: I've done a brand-new install of FreeBSD (4.9), and am a fresh user to this flavor of *nix. Welcome, we hope you enjoy your stay :). The install went more or less without a hitch. For some reason ldap (part of the default package selection) didn't want to install. Could you

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-01 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sunday 01 February 2004 09:29 pm, Krikket wrote: I've done a brand-new install of FreeBSD (4.9), and am a fresh user to this flavor of *nix. The install went more or less without a hitch. For some reason ldap (part of the default package selection) didn't want to install. While I can

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-01 Thread Krikket
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Roop Nanuwa wrote: Krikket wrote: I've done a brand-new install of FreeBSD (4.9), and am a fresh user to this flavor of *nix. Welcome, we hope you enjoy your stay :). Thank you! The install went more or less without a hitch. For some reason ldap (part of the default

RE: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-01 Thread JJB
installing an package pkg_add -rv cvsup-without-gui rehash you have to do rehash command so your shell will search all /bin directories and build shell hash table. Then issue command for installed package. Or of course, reboot will fix it also. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-01 Thread Krikket
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Andrew L. Gould wrote: Krikket wrote: I was able to do a pkg_add -r cvsup on the first try. But I ended up with the same problem -- not being able to find the package once it was installed. Needless to say, I can't add any ports as a result. Why are you using the

Re: Adding Packages and Ports

2004-02-01 Thread Roop Nanuwa
Krikket wrote: Err... Excuse me while I'm a little bull-headed here, and attempting to adjust from the linux world. The reason I was thinking of using the -r option is because it pulls from the ftp site. It does. You should realize though that what you pull from the FTP site is no