From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 3 5: 4:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1B6137B400 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 05:04:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g43C4rU07953; Fri, 3 May 2002 08:04:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD27E1E.4090605@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 08:10:06 -0400 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Defryn, Guy" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mysql install problem References: <98B01D2717B9D411B38F0008C7840931057F37F9@its-xchg2.massey.ac.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you reply to the list as well as me, others can answer your question if I'm unavailable or don't know the answer. Defryn, Guy wrote: > Thanks Bill, > > I think I have downloaded a binary file and I am trying to install it > as a source file. I am rather new to unix. I suggest reading the section on ports/packages in the handbook. It's on the FreeBSD web site, but it's also on your local FreeBSD system if you installed the docs. > I have a few temporary directories now with all the mysql files. > Is there an easy way of deleting this? I cannot seem to delete > the directory in one go rm -r /the/dir/name But I think others already answered this for you. > When I use /stand/sysinstall I can only see the mysql-client package. > I believe I need the server one. I can't use the ports because I don't > have internet connection for that machine. Then grab the .tgz file and use pkg_add to install it. Read the handbook, and the man page for pkg_add. Once you know the system, it's actually very simple. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message