From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 19:26:56 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA24648 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 May 1995 19:26:56 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA24642 for ; Thu, 11 May 1995 19:26:53 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id TAA01361; Thu, 11 May 1995 19:26:46 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199505120226.TAA01361@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: pkg_* commands To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 19:26:45 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505120038.RAA21267@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Charles Henrich" at May 11, 95 08:38:37 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 777 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk man pkg_add pkg_add(8) UNIX System Manager's Manual pkg_add(8) NAME pkg_add - a utility for installing software package distributions. SYNOPSIS pkg_add [-vInfRMS] [-t template] [-p prefix] pkg-name ... DESCRIPTION The pkg_add command is used to extract packages that have been previously created with the pkg_create(8) command. etc...... just point it at the .tgz file e.g. package_add fred.tgz > > How the hell does one setup the package software to work correctly (i.e. > pkg_manage) I cant seem to find even the tiniest of documentation to give me > any hints.. > > -Crh > > Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu > > http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/ >