From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 13 22:50:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA03807 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:50:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA03747 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:50:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01681; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:49:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:49:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Parker cc: Tech Support Subject: Re: Problem Installing lynx In-Reply-To: <35FB1E08.E678C8AD@gte.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Parker wrote: > I want to use lynx to view my online handbook. As per Mr Lehey's book > "the Complete FreeBSD" I attempted pkg_add > /cdrom/packages/All/lynx-2.7.2.tgz (and I used command line editing to > insure proper spelling) I was amazed to find that > /cdrom/packages/All/lynx-2.7.2.tgz is a link to lynx-2.8.tgz, which is > fine --- except that no such filename exists on that CD. We're talking > 2.2.7 FreeBSD here. > Can you help me load lynx on my system? Run the command pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages/All/lynx-2.8.tgz to download and install Lynx. Assuming you have a functioning network connection. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message