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doubleHelix
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Joined: 13 Jul 2006
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 Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:30 pm Post subject:
How do I install the fortune program?
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I have a freeBSD system without the fortune program installed. I dont
have the cd or anything so is it possible to get the source of this
fortune program in a port somewhere or a package. how would i get it
with the sysinstall? I'm not sure how sysinstall works only that in a
previous post someone was successful in getting it from there.
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Dave Uhring
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Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:47 pm Post subject:
Re: How do I install the fortune program?
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On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:30:37 -0700, doubleHelix wrote:
| Quote: | I have a freeBSD system....
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Then why are you posting to an OpenBSD newsgroup?
Perhaps because of this:
X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8.0.3) |
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jKILLSPAM.schipper@math.u
*nix forums Guru Wannabe
Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 202
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| Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:50 pm Post subject:
Re: How do I install the fortune program?
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doubleHelix <realtechnical@gmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I have a freeBSD system without the fortune program installed. I dont
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We don't do that here, I'm afraid. Also, I'd be highly surprised if the
answer to your question was not in the documentation, but since I am not
familiar with FreeBSD, I can't help you there.
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igor@nospam.invalid
*nix forums addict
Joined: 17 Aug 2005
Posts: 81
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:15 am Post subject:
Re: How do I install the fortune program?
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doubleHelix <realtechnical@gmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I have a freeBSD system without the fortune program installed. I dont
have the cd or anything so is it possible to get the source of this
fortune program in a port somewhere or a package. how would i get it
with the sysinstall? I'm not sure how sysinstall works only that in a
previous post someone was successful in getting it from there.
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At least on NetBSD and OpenBSD it is a part of the BSD games collection.
It is usually installed at /usr/games. See if you can download the games
tarball from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/.
Please, be warned that you will get more accurate answers asking on a
FreeBSD newsgroup instead; OpenBSD is a different operating system.
Cheers,
Igor. |
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russell kym horsell
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Joined: 01 Mar 2005
Posts: 68
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| Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 5:26 am Post subject:
Re: How do I install the fortune program?
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doubleHelix <realtechnical@gmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I have a freeBSD system without the fortune program installed. I dont
have the cd or anything so is it possible to get the source of this
fortune program in a port somewhere or a package. how would i get it
with the sysinstall? I'm not sure how sysinstall works only that in a
previous post someone was successful in getting it from there.
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If you have the source taballs handy or have /usr/src installed -- e.g.
you selected "development" system when installing fbsd -- you can just
cd tro /usr/src/games/fortune and do make & make install. It's pretty
much a stand-alone item. |
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