Subject: Re: Help with packages.??
To: Matt Knopp <mhat@fundsxpress.com>
From: None <dbsaint@bellsouth.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/04/1998 00:06:38
Thanx for the help... And i totally agree that its a feature.. (just wish that
virtual consoles actually worked :) ) I like the fact that it needs to
configured, thats why i use it :)
now if i could only make the rightscript for ppp...
Thanx again
On 03-Dec-98 Matt Knopp wrote:
>>>>>> "dbsaint" == dbsaint  <dbsaint@bellsouth.net> writes:
> 
>     dbsaint> Hey everyone on this cool little list... I was wondering
>     dbsaint> how you add netBSD packages off of the CD? Like pkg_add
>     dbsaint> or something? I dont know the correct syntax for it. And
> binary or src? I've never used the cd; but I imagin that pkg_add pkgname.tgz
> will work (binary), or if its src 'make; make install; ' 
> 
>     dbsaint> how do i add the /usr/X11R6/lib to my path ? I found
>     dbsaint> myself actually copying them to /usr/lib which is in my
> I assume what you really mean, is how do you add /usr/X11R6/lib to your 
> library path; so that you can say.. startx. if thats the case you want 
> to have a '/etc/ld.so.conf' and put all of your lib path in that. 
> 
> --ex: 
> /usr/lib
> /usr/pkg/lib
> /usr/local/lib
> /usr/X11R6/lib
> /usr/krb5/lib 
> -- 
> 
>     dbsaint> again.Seems like there is a lott to fix in NetBSD. but
>     dbsaint> thats why i like it, .. :) Tony Hernandez
> 
> Fix? This implys a broken state. I'm not convinced that anything you've 
> described would mean that netbsd was 'broken'. Possibly not as pre-
> configured out of the box as other os's. This is really a feature tho. 
> 
> -Matt

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Date: 04-Dec-98
Time: 00:04:56
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