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- From: sam@csi.compuserve.com (Sam Neely)
- Subject: Re: configuring xdm on Dell 2.2
- Message-ID: <BzBMCB.5qw@csi.compuserve.com>
- Organization: CompuServe Incorporated
- References: <BzBCtJ.u9@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <BzBGK4.4A1@csi.compuserve.com> <BzBJx3.3H0@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:57:46 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- In article <BzBJx3.3H0@ra.nrl.navy.mil> solsman@ra.nrl.navy.mil (Mark Solsman) writes:
- >In article <BzBGK4.4A1@csi.compuserve.com> sam@csi.compuserve.com (Sam Neely) writes:
- >>>applying the patch- pkgadd doesnt work)
- >>
- >>Applying the patch is no problem, once you know what pkgadd wants.
- >>Uncompress and detar the patch into a directory, /usr/foo for example.
- >>You should end up with a subdirectory in there called xdm. To actually
- >>apply the patch, use the command 'pkgadd -d /usr/foo'.
- >
- >Nope, this is what I exactally did at first. I de-tar-red the file in /tmp,
- >then ran pkgadd -d /tmp/xdm. I received the illustrious error in stream-crap
- ^^^^ Leave this off
- >message.
-
- Only specify the base directory where things were detarred to. Don't
- specify the subdirectory. If you do this, pkgadd should present a list
- of patches that may be installed.
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