From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 25 8:10:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4469837C389 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:10:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from craig-burgess@home.net) Received: from home.net ([24.0.178.21]) by mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <20000225161024.SJHT22732.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@home.net>; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:10:24 -0800 Message-ID: <38B6A9E1.1D956983@home.net> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:12:17 -0800 From: Craig Burgess X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry Lei Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: about port collection References: <20000225015705.84292.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The packages are precompiled binaries which are installed using pkg_add; the ports collection compiles source. They do not combine functions. If you used pkg_add, the selected apps should have been installed. craig Jerry Lei wrote: > > Hi, > > After pkg_add any pakage, do I need to do something else to use the package. > For example, I pkg_add xemacs, tcsh, ghostview and communicator4.61. > however, I can't execute them if I use exec /usr/ports/repective > directory/package that I added. Is anything I should do between those two > steps(pkg_add and exec) before I can use them? Thanks > > Lei -- ... mind like a steel trap: things wander in and get mangled ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message