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Subject: installing packages
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 19:31:38 PDT
From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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I have a 3.0 snapshot cd.

I installed it (it installed fine).

I find the sysinstall program a bit too dangerous...
What I want is to see what packages are available to
install (I'm willing to do a pkg_add -p /usr/local <>).

I also don't want to execute any commands as root
(I have /usr/local chmod to 777.)

I read the handbook and faq, and it didn't say much
on how to deal with packages (unless you wanted to
write a new port...lots of information on that).

marty		leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com   
Don't  confuse education with schooling.
	Milton Friedman to Yogi Berra