Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?
Anthony Atkielski
atkielski.anthony at wanadoo.fr
Sun Feb 27 09:01:46 GMT 2005
John writes:
> I suppose I'm nit-picking here, but you would cron it rather than running it
> by hand.
It's mostly the space that I prefer not to part with.
> How much space have you got to play with?
About 2 GB total remaining on /usr. Just installing X stuff gobbled up
a few hundred megabytes, it seems.
> If space is tight, running make
> distclean after make install helps, as does periodically deleting the contents
> of /usr/ports/distfiles
Does pkg_add do this?
> [0] if you mean, by "pull the index from an ftp site" cd /usr/ports && make index
I meant running /stand/sysinstall and selecting an FTP site as the
"installation media" for the software. It always downloads some sort of
index when I do that, which I assume is an up-to-date list of all the
ports available.
--
Anthony
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