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Date:      Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:12:51 +0200 (IST)
From:      Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To:        Tim Yeung <tyeung@dciem.dnd.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to extract tgz files
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112191225.13469A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <9801121612.AA27971@hermes.dciem.dnd.ca>

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On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Tim Yeung wrote:

> Hi there:
> New FreeBSD 3.0-980107-SNAP user.
> System: AMD DX4-100, 28M RAM ,265K cache and 1.2G Hard drive
> 
> I do not have a reliable ISP connection, my ISP is slow and keep 
> cutting off my connection from time to time.
> 
> I can ftp individual "Packages" collection ( e.g. apache1.3b3.tgz ) 
> from the Freebsd site.
> 
> Is there a way for me to manually install each .tgz file?

Sure. Just use pkg_add, like so:
pkg_add apache1.3b3.tgz
(as root)

> 
> *****************************************************
> 
> Tim Yeung
> DCIEM, Simulation and Training
> Fax:416-635-2104          Chat:pcsim23.dciem.dnd.ca
> http://www.dciem.dnd.ca   mailto:tyeung@dciem.dnd.ca
> 
> *****************************************************
> 
Nadav




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