February 28th, 2005, 09:20 PM
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Banned ;)
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA
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When installing from ports, the directory is specified by the name rather than name.specific.version. So you would go to the specfic ports directory (e.g. fvwm2) and type make install and it will install the latest approved ports version for you.
Code:
cd /usr/ports/x11/fvwm2
make
make install
make clean
If you use pkg_add instead of ports, the package usually contains the version # as part of the name (e.g.)fvwm2-2.4.16-i18n.tgz. For instance, I'll assume you're going to directly install from an FTP server. Then you would do something like this:
Code:
pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.6/packages/i386/fvwm2-fvwm2-2.4.16-i18n.tgz
If you've got the package on your hard disk, you would do something like this:
Code:
pkg_add /path/to/fvwm2-2.4.16-i18n.tgz
When installing large packages such as windowmanagers or cvsup, I usually use pkg_add instead of ports. This is because ports downloads the source code and compiles on your machine whereas pkg_add installs a precompiled package. i don't usually have the patience to wait for the port to compile. Your mileage may vary  .
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