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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!news From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing "src" distribution downloaded from ftp site. Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:43:29 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 19 Message-ID: <323CBED1.3B37@OntheNet.com.au> References: <323B3C14.55FD@moon.flanet.com> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: willism@moon.flanet.com Matthew R Willis wrote: > > I have a beginner's question: How do I install the src distribution > files I have downloaded from an ftp site? They are not tar-balled, and > pkg_install seems to require a tarred and zipped file? > > Thanks! > > Matt Have you looked at the README files? I believe that I have seen something like- # cat *.tgz | (cd /usr; tar xvzf - in one of them! Basically, the tar has been 'sliced' into more managable 235 KB units so all you need to do it cat them together and then feed through an un-tar. Tony