From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 4 14:30:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mnmai05.mn.mediaone.net (mnmai05.mn.ipsvc.net [24.131.1.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2276A37B425 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 14:30:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from forestry.umn.edu (nic-118-c56-176.mn.mediaone.net [24.118.56.176]) by mnmai05.mn.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g14MVWb05952 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:31:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C5F0D0D.E4221C32@forestry.umn.edu> Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 16:37:01 -0600 From: Kirk Wythers X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: help a newbie with pkg_add Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been at the pkg_add thing for some time now, and I'm read to admit I need some advice. I have a newly installed 4.5 system (with the ports collection). I want to add xemacs, evolution and openoffice. I have tried: /stand/sysintsall no good since these packages don't seem to be on my cd's pkg_add -r evolution-1.0.1 pkg_add -r xemacs-21.1.14 pkg_add -r openoffice-6.0.a638 in each of these cases pkg_add starts looking for sever and never finds one with the packages it it looking for. I have also tried "make" in /user/ports/"package name" Can anyone help figure out the most straightforeward way to get these programs installed on my system? Should I go ahead and download source and build each myself (seems like a waste of time since others have already done it). Any advice would be most appreciated... Kirk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message