ICQ question
Luke Kearney
lukek at meibin.net
Thu May 13 04:47:20 PDT 2004
On Thu, 13 May 2004 19:42:23 +0800 (CST)
Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> granted us these pearls of wisdom:
> Hi Nelis,
>
> > > Has any folk run 'Kxicq' on FreeBSD before. Can I
> > > talk to my friend if he runs MSN on Windows? If
> > NO
> > > kindly advise what will be the solution.
> >
> > you may want to try Gaim
> > http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ for MSN support
> > and others.
> >
> > /usr/ports/net/gaim
>
> Hi Nelis,
>
> FreeBSD 5.2
> ===========
>
> Tks for your advice.
>
> # cd /usr/ports/
> # make search name=gaim
> Port: gaim-0.73
> Path: /usr/ports/net/gaim
> ......
>
> But the lastest version is
> gaim-0.77.tar.gz
> which has been downloaded to
> /usr/home/download/
>
> I expect to install "gaim-0.77.tar.gz"
> Can I perform as follow;
> # cd /usr/home/download/
> # pkg_add gaim-0.77.tar.gz
>
> Or
> installing the package starting from its tarball
> # cd /usr/home/download/
> # tar zxvf gaim-0.77.tar.gz
> # cd /usr/home/download/gaim-0.77
> # ./configure
> # make
> # make install
>
> Kindly advise. TIA
>
> B.R.
> Stephen
two quick options spring to mind, either (A) cvsup your ports to the
latest or (B) install what is there then using portupgrade upgrade to
the latest.
HTH
LukeK
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