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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: adding packages...
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 00:01:23 -0800
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John D. Szumowski wrote:
> 
> this is a pretty dumb newbie question, but here goes:
> I wanted to get LyX set up, so I downloaded the latest version of libXpm
> from an ftp site. Now, how do I install the file? (easily) I tried the

Why not just try:

pkg_add
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages-current/All/lyx-0.10.7.tgz

This is a -current package, and you may not be able to run it on your
2.1.5 system anyway, but that's at least how you'd go about installing
it over FTP with the pkg_add(1) tool.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project