"Larson, Timothy E." <Larson.Timothy1@mayo.edu> writes:
> Do most people leave the installed components here and update your
> path and manpath?  Do you use pkg_add's -p option to specify the
> location, and how would you know ahead of time to know what that
> location should be?  Do you move binaries to an appropriate (/bin,
> /sbin, /usr/bin) binary directory,

Don't even think about moving them. Things will fail horribly at times
if you do that.

> How/where do I get shared libraries required for new packages if
> they are not already on the system?

If a package and its dependencies are installed, the shared library is
by definition installed...

Perry