From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 1 10:37:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA07092 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 10:37:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA07085 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 10:37:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA26877 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Sun, 1 Sep 1996 10:36:28 -0700 Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-1.ime.net [206.231.148.130]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA02346; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 12:47:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3229BE0B.3EDE@ime.net> Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 12:47:20 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: sln@public.jn.sd.cn Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question in installing packages References: <32297E7B.64C@public.jn.sd.cn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Song Lining wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a novice to FreeBSD, perhaps the following is a stupid question-- > > I've tried to install some ports to my system and it runs well. Now I > want to install softwares from the precompiled packages. Is there any > command like "make install" to install them so that I can delete them > using "pkg_delete"? Is there a recommended directory to install the > packages? I ask the latter question because I find after I decompress > the packages using "tar", there are several subdirectories named "bin", > "lib", "man", how can I treat these directories( my method is copy them > to /usr/bin, /usr/lib and /usr/man, I don't know if it's right)? > > Thanks in advance! > > Song Lining Yup, pkg_add.. :) Kinda suprizing you found pkg_delete and not pkg_add. -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848