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Subject: How do you tell pkg_add to just download the packages ?
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Dear all,

I come from a debian background, and in debian you can pass an argument to
apt-get to tell it to download all the packages first without installing
them first, is there a similar argument that I can pass to pkg_add ( I want
to use binaries ) or are there other tools I can use ?

Thanks.