Subject: Re: Intall packages
To: Bill Hudspeth <wjhud@jps.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/24/2000 11:04:21
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 05:00:29PM -0700, Bill Hudspeth wrote:
> Now that I have a CD with the (complete?) package distribution. I want
> to start adding packages and the commands in man are not clear to me
> (newbie) and I would appreciate any guidance.
> 
> First, there is no  /usr/pkg  directory, so I assume nothing other
> than the essential NetBSD & X have been installed.

No, but pkg_add will create it.

> 
> Besides seting up the package management system, I would also like to
> install KDE becaause I am familiar with it.

You just need to use pkg_add to install packages: pkg_add <package_file.tgz>

for example, to install kde, use: pkg_add kde-1.1.2.tgz

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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