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Subject: Re: NEWBIE: pkg_add syntax clarification for opera 8.01?
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David Armour <dfarmour@myrealbox.com> writes:

> reading the manpages for pkg_add & pkg_create have left me no wiser.
> 
> i'm still confused as to how to use pkg_add to replace a wonky opera 8 with a 
> patched opera 8.01. the handbook instructions i have advise:
> ...
> 226 Transfer complete.
> 92375 bytes received in 5.60 seconds (16.11 KB/s)
> ftp> exit
> # pkg_add lsof-4.56.4.tgz
> ....
> 
> i'm unclear where the .tgz file should be prior to unleashing pkg_add.... 
> currently, it's sitting on my main user's Desktop. but the handbook [3rd ed., 
> 132] cites the subdirectory -- cd /pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/sysutils/ 
> [admittedly for lsof, above] -- so i'm wondering if i should move 
> opera-8.01-20050509.1-static-qt.i386.freebsd-en.tgz 
> 
> to /usr/ports/distfiles?
> 
> thanks for any suggestions, short of suicide. :c)

Well, no one's likely to endorse suicide as a technical support technique...

It doesn't matter where the file is now that you have downloaded it.
Traditionally they go under /usr/ports/packages, because that's where
they are put if you build a package yourself, but the file itself
contains all of the meta-information it needs to install the program
in question.