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Subject: Re: install package from pre-downloaded tgz file?
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I usually put them in the /usr/ports/distfiles directory and install works
for me....

At 08:50 AM 1.8.2002 -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote:
>When I tried to pkg_add -rv pkg-name got message that 
>file could not be found on FTP server xxxxx or server 
>could not be reached or no access  allowed. 
>Before these messages it also said passive ftp enabled. 
>I then used FBSD web/ports to locate the package and 
>downloaded to a win box and then moved it to FBSD. 
>I can not get pkg_add to find and use this package tgz file.
>
>Does the package tgz file have to be in some directory for 
>the pkg_add to find it? IF so where?
>
>How do I get pkg_add to use the local package.tgz file 
>to install from? 
>
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Jack L. Stone,
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