install binary packages without pkg

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Thu Nov 29 11:30:21 UTC 2018


On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:10:19 +0100
Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> It might be possible that you examine the package content, and then
> manually extract them, so its content gets written to the correct
> location. This however does _not_ deal with keeping the system's
> records about installed packages (the package database) consistent
> with the actually installed software! Again, note that those are
> in different formats.

	However even if you do that there's little chance that the binaries
will run unless thay have no dependencies on system provided libraries.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>


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