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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Development Packages?
Date: 7 Jan 1995 12:41:38 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <Typeline-0601951739150001@slip-ppp17.intac.com>,
rjb <Typeline> wrote:
>I've just installed FreeBSD 2.0 and all of the packages except games and
>dict. Is 'srcdist' and srcrdist' necessary for application development? I
>would imagine the compiler and the proflibs is, at a minimum, all that is

srcdist isn't a necessity, but it is VERY nice to have in case of any
trouble!  Also if you want to make changes, etc..

>needed. Is this true? Also, if I need to install an additional package
>after the initial install, what is the shell script for copying the
>package off the CD?

There isn't.  Just cd to the appropriate directory on the CD and type:
`sh ./extract.sh'

					Jordan