Re: How Do I Surf From FBSD?
On 2007/03/22 12:22, Stan Cooper seems to have typed: Hi; I have a server I just built with FBSD and I'd like to be able to surf using a browser. What do I need to build to make that happen? This is covered in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Do I Surf From FBSD?
On 3/22/07, Stan Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; I have a server I just built with FBSD and I'd like to be able to surf using a browser. What do I need to build to make that happen? I think the first problem here is having the words server and surf in the same sentence... Anyway, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html Thanks, Stan2 - Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast with theYahoo! Search weather shortcut. -- Pietro Cerutti - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Do I Surf From FBSD?
Thanks!2 Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/22/07, Stan Cooper wrote: Hi; I have a server I just built with FBSD and I'd like to be able to surf using a browser. What do I need to build to make that happen? I think the first problem here is having the words server and surf in the same sentence... Anyway, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html Thanks, Stan2 - Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast with theYahoo! Search weather shortcut. -- Pietro Cerutti - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org - Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail QA for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Do I Surf From FBSD?
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:22:15PM -0700, Stan Cooper wrote: Hi; I have a server I just built with FBSD and I'd like to be able to surf using a browser. What do I need to build to make that happen? Thanks, Stan2 First you need to configure X-windows and have it running. You configure it first to properly run you graphics card and monitor, keyboard and mouse. Once you are happy with that then you edit: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc and set it up so it starts with the xterms and such that you want. You can make individual xinitrc-s for users and put them in their home directories as .xinitrc as well. Copy that file and modify it to suit. Then CD to: /usr/ports/www/firefox Type:make clean make make install make distclean Now you have the firefox browser installed. You can start it from the command line and/or you can hook it up with an icon in your X-windows window manager. Each window manager is different. I have been using AfterStep which is kind of basic - no frills. I have been lazy with it (and maybe a little ignorant), so I just replace Netscape startup with Firefox startup by editing the AfterStep setup file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/afterstep/system.steprc and changing the line that reads: *Wharf Netscape netscape3.xpm Exec - netscape to be: *Wharf Netscape netscape3.xpm Exec - firefox Then when I click on the Netscape icon it starts firefox. There is no doubt a nice Firefox icon I could put there in place of the netscape3.xmp but I haven't bothered to look for it. voila, you have a browser. There are others such as Opera that are popular. Look in that /usr/ports/wwwdirectory to find scads of stuff including three or four browsers you can install. In addition to this KDE and Gnome install browsers if you install one of them. I don't bother with them because they are too much bloat for my purposes, but a lot of people use them. Learn as much as you can about the ports (/usr/ports) system if you want to get a lot out of FreeBSD. That is where you find all the nice things you can easily install and use. jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Do I Surf From FBSD?
On Thursday 22 March 2007 21:22:15 Stan Cooper wrote: Hi; I have a server I just built with FBSD and I'd like to be able to surf using a browser. What do I need to build to make that happen? Thanks, Stan2 If you mean a browser on the console (not in XWindow system) there's lynx and links for that. Lynx is one of the first things I install (after joe) on a non-X box. Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
