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Date:      Sun, 4 May 1997 10:04:34 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
To:        bjfox@znet.com (Brad Fox)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help with FreeBSD2.2.1
Message-ID:  <199705040804.KAA03852@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
In-Reply-To: <336C35C3.7996@sd.znet.com> from Brad Fox at "May 4, 97 00:07:47 am"

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Hi

> Hi, guy thanks for the support.
> I installed the full FreeBSD2.2.1-i386 on a compaq system. The basic X
> system is running fine. The system installted the ports section all 880
> of them. My problem is I don't know how to install the packages 
> that are on this system I have tried pkg_add ..., pkg_info, make all
> insall and pkg_manage which is just a blank directory. If you could
> please give an assist in this area I would appreciate it.

Login as root, insert the CD and mount it:
# mount /cdrom
Search the tarball of the package in the directory /cdrom/packages and use
pkg_add to install the found package bar:
# pkg_add /cdrom/packages/foo/bar.tgz

> 
>                   Thank you,
You're welcome.
>                   brad fox
>                   bjfox@sd.znet.com
> 

Wolfgang



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