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Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:57:20 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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Subject: Re: .package files?
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On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:07:37 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> Just a quickie- has anyone been able to install a .package file on FBSD?
> 
> File offered an interesting diagnosis: bash script 4 file. Opening in ee 
> (gedit had kittens) displayed that it was indeed a bash script file with 
> one massive difference: there is a line that says skipline=<insert 
> number here>, and from that line number onward it is encoded.

Is this possibly a shell arthive from Linux?
Try "man shar" for more information. Or is it
a kind of shell archive that contains a binary
or uuencode-encoded data block? You could extract
that block manually to a separate file and then
try uudecode (or some other decoder) on it.
It's possible that it is a "self-contained
installer" from a Linux distribution...

Keep on fighting, Blondie has puppies. :-)


-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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