From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 10 09:24:12 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA15603 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 09:24:12 -0800 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.atinc.com [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA15597 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 09:24:10 -0800 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id MAA27659; Tue, 10 Jan 1995 12:20:48 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 12:20:48 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: packages To: Not On Our Customer File cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199501101625.IAA14574@freefall.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, Not On Our Customer File wrote: > Hi: > In response to a query I made re the location of such utilities > as emacs, ksh, XView etc. it was suggested that I use pkg_add and pkg_info in > the packages directory. Well using find I find no packages or Packages or > pkgs ... > Is it me ... ? -- Bill Paladino ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD has three directories packages-1.1, packages-1.1.5 and packages (for 2.0). fetch any that you like and then use pkg_info to see what they are, and pkg_add to install them. pkg_add -n will display the installation steps without actually doing the install (like make -n). Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346