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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: adding additional freeBSD packages Date: 3 Jan 1995 13:31:32 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3ebjjk$odo@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <D1qMsx.6L3@indy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <D1qMsx.6L3@indy.net>, <jpaul@indy.net> wrote: >program, but I had not yet downloaded them, and I was being conservative as >I said before. I missed my chance. Finding that I need some reading to do I >would like to install the manpages now having BSD up and going. I am not >sure just how to do that after the initial installation. Is there a way to >return to that menu where I can add these packages? Also, If there is a I'm afraid that this functionality was _planned_ but never quite gelled for 2.0. It will work in 2.1. For 2.0 the procedure is still very simple: Simply copy the entire contents of the mandist directory to some temporary directory where there's room, then run its extraction script like so: sh ./extract.sh It will unpack itself into all the proper places. No fuss. Jordan