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#! rnews 1576 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Lynx!?!?!?! Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 19:17:26 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3267D7C6.2F4@www.play-hookey.com> References: <3266CC57.12A8@freenet.mb.ca> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Stephane Raimbault 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 The .tgz file is a package, not a port. Just cd to the directory that contains it and the do a pkg_add lynx* . The .tgz contains all of the info needed to install Lynx and its pieces where they need to go. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |