From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 12 10:52:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luna.osd.bsdi.com (luna.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 014BE37C08A for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:52:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com) Received: by luna.osd.bsdi.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D83553134; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:52:17 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Daniel Cuthbert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing software Message-ID: <20000712105217.B11901@luna.osd.bsdi.com> Reply-To: jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com References: <20000712092726.V25603@shell.wetworks.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.5i In-Reply-To: ; from daniel.cuthbert@uk.psi.com on Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:36:01PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 at 14:36:01 +0100, Daniel Cuthbert wrote: > Hi all > > im a bit confused when it comes to installing packages in FreeBSD > on the ports homepage, if you download say the vmware package, it > comes down as a tar file now where do i untar this to? You don't. You use pkg_add(1). > also what was the ports collection i installed on installation? Take a look in your /usr/ports directory. > does that contact the package aswell No. - jim -- /* jim mock - berkeley software design, inc - open source division */ /* documentation manager - jim@FreeBSD.org - jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message