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Package manager installation notes

Dr. Michael L. Love, 2001.06.20

Warning: These instructions are still a work in progress and may contain inaccuracies or omissions. Be sure to read the APSL and the GPL, so that you will know your rights. Send any email regarding this document to proclus@gnu-darwin.org (Dr. Michael Love). Please remember that we are in alpha, so this procedure is for the adventurous. Almost all the packages work, but there are still many problems. Join the project, if you want them fixed!

  1. Get pkg_install

    Download the package manager applications. They come as compiled sources.

  2. Install the package manager.

    tar -zxf pkg_install.tgz
    cd pkg_install
    cp info/pkg_info /usr/sbin
    cp delete/pkg_delete /usr/sbin
    cp create/pkg_create /usr/sbin
    cp add/pkg_add /usr/sbin

  3. Perhaps we will make a package manager package in the next revision ;-}. If you still have questions, try posting a message to the one of the discussion forums.

      http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnu-darwin-ports
      GNU-Darwin-ports for discussion of the GNU-Darwin porting engine.

      http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnu-darwin-distribution
      Using The GNU-Darwin Distribution



Finally, check out The Darwin Collection CD set, which offers nearly 2000 software packages which are compatible with this system, plus much more.


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