From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 4 14:32:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 291C137B481 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 14:32:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 83572 invoked by uid 1111); 4 Feb 2002 22:32:06 -0000 Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 14:32:06 -0800 From: Jim Mock To: Kirk Wythers Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help a newbie with pkg_add Message-ID: <20020204223206.GA83255@helios.dub.net> Reply-To: mij@soupnazi.org References: <3C5F0D0D.E4221C32@forestry.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C5F0D0D.E4221C32@forestry.umn.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 at 16:37:01 -0600, Kirk Wythers wrote: > 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 You can drop the version numbers and pkg_add will do the right thing and install the latest package. I.e.: pkg_add -r evolution - jim -- jim mock http://soupnazi.org/ | jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message