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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: adding additional freeBSD packages
Date: 3 Jan 1995 13:31:32 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <D1qMsx.6L3@indy.net>,  <jpaul@indy.net> wrote:
>program, but I had not yet downloaded them, and I was being conservative as 
>I said before. I missed my chance. Finding that I need some reading to do I 
>would like to install the manpages now having BSD up and going. I am not 
>sure just how to do that after the initial installation. Is there a way to 
>return to that menu where I can add these packages? Also, If there is a 

I'm afraid that this functionality was _planned_ but never quite gelled
for 2.0.  It will work in 2.1.  For 2.0 the procedure is still very simple:
Simply copy the entire contents of the mandist directory to some temporary
directory where there's room, then run its extraction script like so:

	sh ./extract.sh

It will unpack itself into all the proper places.  No fuss.

						Jordan