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From: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber)
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Subject: Re: Making News Package Work on FreeBSD 2.0.5
To: rjiang@akbs.com (Ruiyuan Jiang)
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 11:32:10 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199507121459.HAA09911@netcom11.netcom.com> from "Ruiyuan Jiang" at Jul 12, 95 07:59:03 am
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Ruiyuan Jiang writes:
> 
> Hi, FreeBSD experts:
> 
> I downloaded Usenet News package from  
> /pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.0.5/news/inn/inn-1.4.tgz (I don't care which  
> packages such as cnews, nntp are fine for me) and  
> /pub/FreeBSD/ports-2.0.5/news/inn/....(makefile and its subdirectory  
> files)from ftp.freebsd.org using my FreeBSD 2.0.5 machine. I created a  
> temporary directory and extracted the file inn-1.4.tgz under the  
> directory. I checked all the files that I extracted but I can't find any  
> installation files such as readme file, etc. Can anyone give me any  
> advice, please? Thanks in advance.

You need only the port or the package, not both.  To install the
package, simply type:

  pkg_add inn-1.4.tgz

and the rest is automatic.

-john

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