From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 29 13:07:21 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA12225 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 13:07:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line9.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.192]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA12218 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 13:07:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA00257; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 13:07:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 13:07:06 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "John D. Szumowski" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding packages... In-Reply-To: <32C6C6A4.41C67EA6@javanet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, John D. Szumowski wrote: > this is a pretty dumb newbie question, but here goes: > I wanted to get LyX set up, so I downloaded the latest version of libXpm > from an ftp site. Now, how do I install the file? (easily) I tried the > ftp installation, but it kept complaining about not being able to find > indexes, etc. (I have the 2.1.5 cds). What is the easiest way for me to > add this package? (xpm-3.4i.tgz) `pkg_add xpm-3.4i.tgz', if you downloaded this from the packages/ heirarchy on ftp.freebsd.org or the CDROM. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major