I know of no way to install packages on the mac side. You can use the installer
to copy in the tarballs. Just cpin package.tgz package.tgz from the minishell.
Once you boot into bsd pkg_add package.tgz. Hope this helps'

Sal

James Kelly wrote:

> This is a problem I'm having, I used the mac sid installer I used to
> install the os to install a bunch of apps. Now the system can't find the
> apps. I launch pico and it tells me libpico.so 2. whatever can't be found,
> yet there it is in /bin and /bin is in my path. I can't use any of the apps
> I installed this way. How else are you supposed t ge the apps on he mac
> side?
>
> I don't get it.
>
> Jim Kelly
>
> Ken Nakata wrote:
>
> > Jim Watson wrote:
> > >
> > > Is the installer 1.1g suppose to install software in the same place as
> > > the pkg_add program...
> >
> > No, not at all.  Installer *should* *not* be used to install precompiled
> > binary packages.  Currently, there's no MacOS-side utility to install
> > precompiled binary packages, so you have to use NetBSD pkg_add command.
> >
> > Ken