From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 12 09:20:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA29615 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 09:20:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA29561 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 09:20:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nadav@barcode.co.il) Received: from localhost (nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA13471; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:12:51 +0200 (IST) (envelope-from nadav@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:12:51 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: Tim Yeung cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to extract tgz files In-Reply-To: <9801121612.AA27971@hermes.dciem.dnd.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Tim Yeung wrote: > Hi there: > New FreeBSD 3.0-980107-SNAP user. > System: AMD DX4-100, 28M RAM ,265K cache and 1.2G Hard drive > > I do not have a reliable ISP connection, my ISP is slow and keep > cutting off my connection from time to time. > > I can ftp individual "Packages" collection ( e.g. apache1.3b3.tgz ) > from the Freebsd site. > > Is there a way for me to manually install each .tgz file? Sure. Just use pkg_add, like so: pkg_add apache1.3b3.tgz (as root) > > ***************************************************** > > Tim Yeung > DCIEM, Simulation and Training > Fax:416-635-2104 Chat:pcsim23.dciem.dnd.ca > http://www.dciem.dnd.ca mailto:tyeung@dciem.dnd.ca > > ***************************************************** > Nadav