Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 21:19:50 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>, whitehat@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bash shell Message-ID: <19991205211950.61994@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912042311330.7221-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>; from Annelise Anderson on Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 11:15:38PM -0800 References: <384A06FC.2AF15291@home.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912042311330.7221-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Saturday, 4 December 1999 at 23:15:38 -0800, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 whitehat@home.com wrote: > >> Hello, I recently did a floppy-disk installation of FreeBSD Release 3.3, >> and I want to install the Bash shell package(I cannot stand csh) >> Anyways, I went to the freebsd FTP site, looked under "packages",than >> "shells", than I downloaded the newest version of the bash shell. Well, >> when I did a "/stand/sysinstall", and went to packages, there was no >> listing for shells! What happened? Is the index file missing things? I >> have the bash installation files on disk...how would I mount my disk and >> read it in FreeBSD? I tried "mount /fd0" and "mount /dev/fd0" but they >> both dont work. Can someone please help? > > I've always had a shells category in packages, but I'm not sure > what an install from floppy does in this regard. > > Anyway, once you download the bash package file (bash*.tgz, or > whatever) you can go to the directory where it resides and type > pkg_add bash<whatever> and it will be added, with bash in > /usr/local/bin. You don't need to change to the directory. Just specify a valid path to the package. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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