Totally newbie - install problems

2003-06-19 Thread Nagy Lszl Zsolt
Hi All! I'm totally new to FreeBSD. I used Linux before but I decided to try FreeBSD. I just downloaded FreeBSD 4.8 from a public ftp site and installed a brand new system with X and full development tools. I have some questions. I read about the differences between Linux and FreeBSD. I

Re: Totally newbie - install problems

2003-06-19 Thread Kevin Stevens
But I need other packages like wxPython, PyCrypto and others for my work. I know I can download the source code and compile them. I could also find binaries but the dependency tree is endless (and I had version problems too). I read the comparison where someone said FreeBSD is even better

Re: Totally newbie - install problems

2003-06-19 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, But I need other packages like wxPython, PyCrypto and others for my work. I know I can download the source code and compile them. I could also find binaries but the dependency tree is endless (and I had version problems too). I read the comparison where someone said FreeBSD is even

Re: Totally newbie - install problems

2003-06-19 Thread jle
Probably I will need to setup several client computers in the end, so an automated installation would be the best (download and install required packages/ports for the selected package/port automatically). Can you help me? When you install your ports, use the 'depend all' switches cd

Re: Totally newbie - install problems

2003-06-19 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, jle wrote: Probably I will need to setup several client computers in the end, so an automated installation would be the best (download and install required packages/ports for the selected package/port automatically). Can you help me? When you install your ports, use the

Re: Totally newbie - install problems

2003-06-19 Thread jle
The target is actually depends with the s. But how is that different from 'make install clean'? *shrug* make depend (without the 's') all install clean has always worked for me. I've used that since FreeBSD 2.1 at least. I would think if it was depends that it would say something like:

Re: Totally newbie - install problems

2003-06-19 Thread Jud
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:52:09 -0700 (PDT), jle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The target is actually depends with the s. But how is that different from 'make install clean'? *shrug* make depend (without the 's') all install clean has always worked for me. I've used that since FreeBSD 2.1 at least. I

Re: Totally newbie - install problems

2003-06-19 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, jle wrote: The target is actually depends with the s. But how is that different from 'make install clean'? *shrug* make depend (without the 's') all install clean has always worked for me. Okay. The man page lists it with the extra s. So I assume that depend