From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 22 01:19:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D445516A41C for ; Sun, 22 May 2005 01:19:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfarmour@myrealbox.com) Received: from pd4mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EBD343D48 for ; Sun, 22 May 2005 01:19:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfarmour@myrealbox.com) Received: from pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr3so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.108]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IGV00HHXAAUH4SP@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 May 2005 19:18:30 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml8so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.152]) by pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IGV00L4LAAUMMJ0@pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 May 2005 19:18:30 -0600 (MDT) Received: from S0106000d87ae2db6.gv.shawcable.net (S0106000d87ae2db6.gv.shawcable.net [24.108.146.24]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IGV009AQAATDS@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 May 2005 19:18:30 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 18:18:31 -0700 From: David Armour In-reply-to: <447jhsps68.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Lowell Gilbert Message-id: <200505211818.31536.dfarmour@myrealbox.com> Organization: dfarmour.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200505201114.33106.dfarmour@myrealbox.com> <447jhsps68.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Subject: Re: NEWBIE: pkg_add syntax clarification for opera 8.01? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 01:19:14 -0000 thank you for your reply. > > thanks for any suggestions, short of suicide. :c) > Well, no one's likely to endorse suicide as a technical support you've never worked in a kitchen? [i'm going to stop now, before i tromp on any more sensibilities.] > It doesn't matter where the file is now that you have downloaded it. > Traditionally they go under /usr/ports/packages, because that's where > they are put if you build a package yourself, but the file itself thank you. that clears that up for me. > contains all of the meta-information it needs to install the program if it's possible to screw it up, i'll find the way. i could hire myself out. really. it's a gift.