Error installing softwares on FreeBSD system

[Martin Hepworth]

HI

I think you will need to make cvsup first from the ports directory,
Then use cvsup to get the latest version of ports tree. See
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
for more details..

--
Martin


On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:06:09 GMT, hamsadhvani at netzero.com
<hamsadhvani at netzero.com> wrote:
> 
>  I completed the BSD 5.3 instllation on my Dell Desktop using the first CD of the 4 CD set. I installed all the ports and distributions in the first CD. But when I tried to 'make install' emacs from the /usr/ports/editors/emacs20 directory I get a lot of messages which says 'Attemting to fetch from :<ftp site name> : No address record
> And finally an error message which says:
>    Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this port manually into usr/ports/distfiles and try again
> Error code 1
> Same is the case with other softwates and utilities.
> 
> I don't have FTP configured on my computer. Do I have to get the CVS repository installed? If so please give me the instructions or a link. Is it necessary that I install the rest of the CDs?
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