Date: 21 May 2005 10:30:55 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NEWBIE: pkg_add syntax clarification for opera 8.01? Message-ID: <447jhsps68.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200505201114.33106.dfarmour@myrealbox.com> References: <200505201114.33106.dfarmour@myrealbox.com>
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David Armour <dfarmour@myrealbox.com> writes: > reading the manpages for pkg_add & pkg_create have left me no wiser. > > i'm still confused as to how to use pkg_add to replace a wonky opera 8 with a > patched opera 8.01. the handbook instructions i have advise: > ... > 226 Transfer complete. > 92375 bytes received in 5.60 seconds (16.11 KB/s) > ftp> exit > # pkg_add lsof-4.56.4.tgz > .... > > i'm unclear where the .tgz file should be prior to unleashing pkg_add.... > currently, it's sitting on my main user's Desktop. but the handbook [3rd ed., > 132] cites the subdirectory -- cd /pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/sysutils/ > [admittedly for lsof, above] -- so i'm wondering if i should move > opera-8.01-20050509.1-static-qt.i386.freebsd-en.tgz > > to /usr/ports/distfiles? > > thanks for any suggestions, short of suicide. :c) Well, no one's likely to endorse suicide as a technical support technique... 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 contains all of the meta-information it needs to install the program in question.
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