David/absolute

On 8 Jan 2000, Martin Steigerwald wrote:

> I installed all packages by extracting them relative to /usr/pkg. This
> somehow worked, but I guess I have to read instructions on how to install
> packages properly somewhere. Cause even tough KDE works - I only installed
> kdebase, kdelibs, kdeutils and kdesupport - it for example does not find
> its icon graphics and symbols and thus looks quite funny, and then there
> are those package files like +DESC, +something and stuff. Well there ought
> to be some package manager? "man pkg" or "man pkgsrc" didn't give me
> anything. Or is that package manager only for the source code packages?
> 
	pkg_add whatever.tar.gz
	If will automatically handle dependencies (so kde will pull in
	kdeutils etc).

	If you can think additional places to document this, let us know!