Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 02:45:56 +0000 From: Tsampros Leonidas <ltsampros@upnet.gr> To: Andrei Iarus <poni1111@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing programs from FreeBSD ftp server. Message-ID: <20050714024556.GA35945@bifteki.lan> In-Reply-To: <20050713232319.10589.qmail@web51706.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050713232319.10589.qmail@web51706.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:23:19PM -0700, Andrei Iarus wrote: > I experience some problems using the FreeBSD ftp > server: I can`t really install anything from it. Is > there any other posibilities than ports' "make > install" method? What can I do in this case? Thank you > in advance. > I think you should investigate the pkg_add(1) man page. A quick way to install directly a package (that means a precompiled "port") is to use the following syntax: # pkg_add -rv port-name i.e pkg_add -rv cvsup-without-gui
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