Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:10:41 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox install problem Message-ID: <4C61C051.9020705@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4C61BAFD.5050004@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4C60C4D9.A6BEE6E@blakemfg.com> <4C60D596.8070405@too1337.com> <4C617BA6.659B26B4@blakemfg.com> <i3s1pk$24l$1@dough.gmane.org> <4C61BAFD.5050004@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 10/08/2010 21:47:57, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 10/08/2010 18:21:25, Michael Powell wrote:
>> A tar.gz is a source code tarball meant to be compiled via the ports s=
ystem.=20
>> pkg_add installs precompiled and packaged binary packages. Package fil=
es=20
>> will have a .tbz extension. pkg_add does not operate on source code=20
>> tarballs.
>=20
> All pkgs have a .tbz suffix -- true, at least since about 6.0-RELEASE.
> Not everything with a .tbz suffix is a FreeBSD pkg though. .tbz is
> short for .tar.bz2, and there are plenty of source tarballs around
> distributed with a .tbz extension.
>=20
> .tgz is similar shorthand for .tar.gz. If you go and look, you can fin=
d
> a bunch of other compression programs applied to tar archives and used
> for distributing stuff.
>=20
> The best way to tell if what you're looking at is a FreeBSD package is
> to run pkg_info against it:
>=20
> pkg_info -a foo-1.0.0.tbz
Ahem.
pkg_info foo-1.0.0.tbz
'-a' will, of course, show you information about all of the packages
installed on the system, which is nice, but not much use in this case.
> Of course, having downloaded the pkg from the packages directory tree o=
n
> one of the FreeBSD FTP servers is a pretty big hint as well. As is
> finding it in /usr/ports/packages/All.
>=20
> Cheers,
>=20
> Matthew
>=20
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
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