Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:57:20 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .package files? Message-ID: <20120906165720.68d9755e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <504859C9.7010402@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <504859C9.7010402@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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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 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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