From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 18 05:11:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88E8216A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 05:11:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from invasion.mail.pas.earthlink.net (invasion.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 657F643D45 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 05:11:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lwellis@mindspring.com) Received: from h-64-105-20-212.dnvtco56.dynamic.covad.net ([64.105.20.212] helo=LLAPTOP) by invasion.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 3.36 #4) id 1BbBdf-0005BC-00; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 22:10:07 -0700 Message-ID: <002c01c454f2$8794c7f0$0200a8c0@LLAPTOP> From: "LW Ellis" To: "Renato Marques" , References: <000b01c454eb$c1ce3160$0200a8c0@LLAPTOP> <000c01c454ed$a571d6a0$2101a8c0@p4> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:10:07 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-ELNK-Trace: aa15571473bf62249649176a89d694c0f43c108795ac4507f9006768c2127d01a3bc937c9c4b5cb6350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Subject: Working now [FreeBSD] pkg_add help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 05:11:30 -0000 I tried that, it kept telling me that it wasn't a package. Went back and tried again, now it works... Thanx Renato Leon -----> Hi, > Packages and ports are diferent. > > A package is already compiled aplication and you will use > pkg_add - To install > pkg_delete - To deinstall > pkg_info - To view packages that are instaled. > > so, you will install it using > > pkg_add packagename.tbz > > >