From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 12 6:36:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from staff.uk.psi.com (staff.uk.psi.com [154.8.2.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE97337BE35 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 06:36:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daniel.cuthbert@uk.psi.com) Received: from hrel039 (ip202.dc-eng.uk.psi.com [154.8.27.202]) by staff.uk.psi.com (8.8.4/) with SMTP id OAA12241 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:36:31 +0100 (BST) Reply-To: From: "Daniel Cuthbert" To: Subject: RE: installing software Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:36:01 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20000712092726.V25603@shell.wetworks.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all im a bit confused when it comes to installing packages in FreeBSD on the ports homepage, if you download say the vmware package, it comes down as a tar file now where do i untar this to? also what was the ports collection i installed on installation? does that contact the package aswell sorry if this seems confusing but im kinda confused aswell at the mo cheers dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message