Subject: Re: Installing an application - newbie question?
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: John Niven <jniven@transmeta.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/03/2005 19:48:52
On Jul 3, 2005, at 4:06 PM, John Niven wrote:

>
> On Jul 1, 2005, at 1:56 AM, TLorD wrote:
>> and that's it. You can install web browsers for Xwindows, for example 
>> firefox
>> is just a
>> cd /usr/pkgsrc/www/firefox && make && make install
>> away (and few compilation hours, alas!)
>
>
> OK I tried that. It's been running for almost 24 hours now :-) Is this 
> normal, or a function my being frugal with my PC equipment (dual 
> 200MHz Pentium Pro)? Will it ever stop?
>
> John - newbie but :-)


Now this is going to appear even dumber!! It stopped compiling. What do 
I do now? I tried "pkg_info" and it lists firefox-1.0.4, but how do I 
start it? Where would it be installed on my system.

Thanks!