Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 11:32:10 -0400 (EDT) From: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) To: rjiang@akbs.com (Ruiyuan Jiang) Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making News Package Work on FreeBSD 2.0.5 Message-ID: <199507121532.LAA24780@grendel.csc.smith.edu> In-Reply-To: <199507121459.HAA09911@netcom11.netcom.com> from "Ruiyuan Jiang" at Jul 12, 95 07:59:03 am
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Ruiyuan Jiang writes: > > Hi, FreeBSD experts: > > I downloaded Usenet News package from > /pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.0.5/news/inn/inn-1.4.tgz (I don't care which > packages such as cnews, nntp are fine for me) and > /pub/FreeBSD/ports-2.0.5/news/inn/....(makefile and its subdirectory > files)from ftp.freebsd.org using my FreeBSD 2.0.5 machine. I created a > temporary directory and extracted the file inn-1.4.tgz under the > directory. I checked all the files that I extracted but I can't find any > installation files such as readme file, etc. Can anyone give me any > advice, please? Thanks in advance. You need only the port or the package, not both. To install the package, simply type: pkg_add inn-1.4.tgz and the rest is automatic. -john === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ========== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===
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