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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 20:23:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To: Allen Louden <alouden@access.eve.net>
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Subject: Re: pkg_add
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On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Allen Louden wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Where does one find the utility to add packaged software to FreeBSD. Or
> if someone has a better way, I'm open for suggestions.
> Thanks,
> Allen
> 
It's part of the basic system, in /usr/sbin/pkg_add.  This directory
is likely to be in your path (which is probably defined in .cshrc if
you're using the csh shell), so you call call pkg_add from anywhere;
do it as root.  You can look at your path by typing 
echo $PATH
at the command line.  As an argument to pkg_add you want the full
path and name of the package you want to add, perhaps like this:
pkg_add /cdrom/packages/All/packagename

Annelise