| I've already set up my CD-ROM for quick mounting, added
the Shortcut for compiling from CD-ROM, and the added the entire ports tree, so it makes it fairly easy to compile from the
CD-ROM. But that's no use to me as I can't get the stuff off the CD-ROM at the
moment. So it's off to the Internet I go. I'll be using the Compiling ports from
the Internet section of the FreeBSD
Handbook. I followed the directions exactly, but I added one minor change.
I'm behind a firewall, so before I did the get, I entered passive mode
by typing passive. Here's the details of what I did:
kennett# cd /usr/ports
kennett# cd www
kennett# ftp ftp.freebsd.org
ftp> passive
ftp> get lynx.tar
local: lynx.tar remote: lynx.tar
227 Entering Passive Mode (209,155,82,18,112,245)
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'lynx.tar'.
226 Transfer complete.
11264 bytes received in 4.36 seconds (2.52 KB/s)
ftp> quit
kennett# tar xf lynx.tar
kennett# cd lynx
kennett# make
kennett# make install
I did have some problems along the way. Namely fetch:
illegal option -- A and Could not find
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk but I eventually solved both of those problems.
I also had a problem getting lynx to run the first time:
kennett# lynx
lynx: Command not found.
kennett# which lynx
lynx: Command not found.
But lynx was at /usr/local/bin and had the correct file permission:
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 823640 Mar 15 21:39 lynx
I was able to run it by issuing the following command:
kennett# /usr/local/bin/lynx
Which means /usr/local/bin was not in my path. But it actually
was. Here's how I fixed that. |
