From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 21 4:27:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74E9F116D1 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 04:27:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.51]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA510D; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:27:44 +0100 Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (daemon.ninth-circle.org [192.168.0.1]) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00476; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:36:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F31817803041E@za12nt02.mweb.com> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:36:53 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Langa Kentane Subject: RE: Installiing packages (Newbie question) Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 21-Feb-99 Langa Kentane wrote: > I have just downloaded Xfree86 3.3.3 and now want to install it. > > I believe that you with packages that are not on the ports collection you > can't use the pkg_add command. How do I install? > I am using FreeBSD-3.0 and the packages come in .tgz format. If it's the normal .tar.gz/.tgz file from an X mirror than one could place it in /usr/ports/distfiles, go to the appropriate ports directory and make. Make will normally try to download it, but seeing that it exists in /usr/ports/distfiles will just use the file. HTH, --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven http://www.freebsdzine.org> asmodai(at)wxs.nl This is my Truth, tell me your's... Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message