From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 26 12: 1:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE5F814F7E for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 12:01:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA03914; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:00:21 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:00:20 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor To: Parker Brown Cc: Tech Support Subject: Re: pkg_add trouble with lynx on FreeBSD 3.1 In-Reply-To: <36FBD643.9EFAE903@gte.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > Both /usr/ports/www/lynx and /lynx-current exist, but pkg_add says > neither is a .tar archive (I think that's true!) and not a PACKAGE > (but they both LOOK like packages!) and quits with a "no +CONTENTS > file" message. HELP! What am I doing wrong? I like to use lynx to > access handbook! Because those are ports directories and NOT packages. If you want the packages you need to download those. If you'd like to use the port then go to /usr/ports/www/lynx and type, as root, "make install" and the port will fetch, patch for FreeBSD, build, and install the port. Brett *********************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu * brett@daemonnews.org * * http://www.daemonnews.org/ * *********************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message