Subject: Re: Installing an application - newbie question?
To: TLorD <tld@tld.digitalcurse.com>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/01/2005 09:07:46
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, TLorD wrote:

> To do that you need to browse the
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/README.html repository and go
> to the page for the software you want. You'll notice, at the end of the page,
> a list of precompiled packages. You'll have to download one of these files
> (with the correct arch and possibly correct NetBSD version) and then
> pkg_add that_file.tgz
> (yes, you'll have to download the dependencies by hand too)

You should be able to point the pkg_add directly to the http:// or ftp://
URL of the package. And it can do dependencies too.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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