From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 19 11:48:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com [66.66.72.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A341A37B41A for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:48:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5A316901A00; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:46:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:46:25 -0400 From: mpd To: Robert Tsay Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: .tgz package.. Message-ID: <20020419144625.B700@rochester.rr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from cctsay@coollinux.adsldns.org on Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:17:53AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:17:53AM -0700, Robert Tsay wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam: > > If I got a .tgz package, how can I get it installed? > What's the command to uncompress and install? If it's a pre-compiled package that you downloaded from, say, ftp.freebsd.org, then rtfm for pkg_add. > > Thanks! > R. mike -- ___________________________________________________________ Pokey's Twin: "WHAT IS ON THE MENU POKEY?" Pokey the Penguin: "GRITS!" - from "POKEY HAS AN IDENTICAL TWIN" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message