Re: Package Add

[Hervey Allen <hervey at oregon.uoregon.edu>]

At 07:38 PM 6/11/01 +0200, Joe wrote:
>How can i add a package i downloaded from the internet to my freeBSD box.
>The package is in '.tar.gz', how do i unpack it (i tried gunzip -perhaps i
>didn't get it right) and add it to my system

If it's a package, and it installs binary to system directories, then as 
root type:

         pkg_add package_name.tar.gz

If you ever want to unzip and untar a file in tar.gz format you type:

         tar xvzf filename.tar.gz

Good luck,
         - Hervey


>Joe
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