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Subject: Re: Reg. Third party Software installation
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"subbu ramanN" <n.subburaman@gmail.com> writes:

>                 I am subburaman from bangalore.I am having FreeBsd OS.Now i
> want to install the google earth software.I have downloaded googleearth.bin
> file.How can i install ? Kindly give me the guidlines.

Installing third-party software is best done through the FreeBSD ports
system.  There is a section on this in the FreeBSD Handbook, (e.g., my
copy at http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html)
and also the standard manual: "man ports".