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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:21:34 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Piotr Kryszk <piotrk@zrit.olsztyn.tpsa.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installing packages
Message-ID:  <20010125092134.E58537@citusc17.usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3A704F37.703871EE@zrit.olsztyn.tpsa.pl>; from piotrk@zrit.olsztyn.tpsa.pl on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:07:20PM %2B0100
References:  <3A704F37.703871EE@zrit.olsztyn.tpsa.pl>

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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:07:20PM +0100, Piotr Kryszk wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> I would like to install Oracle Database in my computer. I have seen in
> handbook, how to do it. But I must install some packages e.g.
> linux_base. But in order to install it I must install the other package
> e.g. popt-1.5... but it requires m4 packages etc. I have just download
> eight packages. It spends a lot of time and I not sure that I have all
> required packages. Could You give me advice how I can install all needed
> packages quickly and at once?

pkg_add -r <package-name> will recursively add the latest version of
<package-name> (e.g. "popt") plus all of the packages it depends on,
downloading them all from the net. For more information, see the
pkg_add manpage.

Kris

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