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From: markm@mincom.oz.au (Mark McCafferty)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 2nd request: How to install additional packages?
Date: 20 Mar 1995 23:51:46 GMT
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In <3ki8u6$fne@agate.berkeley.edu> jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
>In article <shamrock-1403951926120001@192.0.2.1>,
>Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> wrote:
>>After installing the bindist, I attempted to install the manpages. I used
>>/sbin/sysinstall as per the faq. The only two options that related to what
>>I wanted to do were "full install" and "fix-it" mode. Since I didn't want
>For 2.0R and the last snapshot, sysinstall should be regarded as a one-shot
>deal. Please do not attempt to use it again. We've said it quite a few
>times in public, but apparently the information ages fast and we're going to
>need to put it in a FAQ or something (e.g. this is not your fault and I'm
>not flaming you).
>To install an additional *dist after your 2.x system is already up, just
>run the extract.sh script by hand (sh ./extract.sh). It will do the rest.
Yes, but how do I install just _part_ of a *dist. For example, I just
want kermit and pppd out of the source dist (assuming that's where they
are :-).
thx
mark
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