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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!news.Stanford.EDU!andrsn.stanford.edu!andrsn From: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu (Annelise Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Lynx!?!?!?! Date: 19 Oct 1996 04:26:16 GMT Organization: Stanford University Lines: 25 Message-ID: <549l98$38o@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <3266CC57.12A8@freenet.mb.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: andrsn.stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Stephane Raimbault (bsw827@freenet.mb.ca) wrote: : Hi!!! : I need HELP!!! : I am trying out FreeBSD and I would like to install Lynx as a FreeBSD : package(you know when you type /stand/sysinstall you can go to custom : install and install packages. I would like to install Lynx but when it : tries to retrieve the file it doesn't find the file. I must install of : disks unfortunately. I probably need lynx in a certain directory on my : disk but I don't know where. Also I have the Lynx*.tgz file off : ftp.freebsd.org and that's what I want to install. Please help. : I am running FreeBSD 2.1.5 : choa. : Steph. If the lynx*.tgz file is the package, you can use pkg-add: /usr/sbin/pkg_add lynx*.tgz should probably work. It will put the binary in the appropriate directory so you can run it from anywhere if the directory is in your path. Annelise