From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 14 22:51:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA00308 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 22:51:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from astor.interport.net (astor.interport.net [199.184.165.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA00302 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 22:51:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from molbloo@interport.net) Received: from interport.net (molbloo@park.nfs.interport.net [205.161.144.2]) by astor.interport.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA15933; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 01:51:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (molbloo@localhost) by interport.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA09942; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 01:49:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 01:49:49 -0500 (EST) From: alissa bader To: Jim Mock cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make install problem: addendum In-Reply-To: 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 On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Jim Mock wrote: > You don't need to uncompress it, it's a package. Just running > `pkg_add 227upgrade.tgz' will install it for you. Hey! I did that, and it worked, and plus I managed to make that png directory on my machine! thanks! I guess this proves that often the most frustrating of problems have the simplest of answers. Are .tgz files generally packages? thanks again, --Alissa using 2.2.7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message