NEWBIE: pkg_add syntax clarification for opera 8.01?

David Armour dfarmour at myrealbox.com
Fri May 20 11:14:28 PDT 2005


hello,

reading the manpages for pkg_add & pkg_create have left me no wiser.

i'm still confused as to how to use pkg_add to replace a wonky opera 8 with a 
patched opera 8.01. the handbook instructions i have advise:
...
226 Transfer complete.
92375 bytes received in 5.60 seconds (16.11 KB/s)
ftp> exit
# pkg_add lsof-4.56.4.tgz
....

i'm unclear where the .tgz file should be prior to unleashing pkg_add.... 
currently, it's sitting on my main user's Desktop. but the handbook [3rd ed., 
132] cites the subdirectory -- cd /pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/sysutils/ 
[admittedly for lsof, above] -- so i'm wondering if i should move 
opera-8.01-20050509.1-static-qt.i386.freebsd-en.tgz 

to /usr/ports/distfiles?

thanks for any suggestions, short of suicide. :c)



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