Welcome aboard!! I think you will need to compile the prgs you download from 'sources'... just type 'mk install' n the proper directory please do not hesitate to ask me more if you're in a problem,I 'm not a guru, but I have some 10 yrs. experience with plan 9 as my favourite os.....
greetings, ++pac <tyapca7(_at_)gmail.com> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, plan9 <bitpusher2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greets all. > If I may please, > i'm a plan9 newbie. Don't know a thing about writing code or > programming, nor do I know anything about networking other than what > dhcp does for me. Thusly, i'm just a "user". I enjoy figuring out > everything I can on my own when possible, having learnt alot from so > many years of Slackware and FreeBSD. > > Truthfully, I just need help understanding how to do one thing. > Installing other softwares. How do I take something (say from the > sources index on the plan9 homesite) and install it? I can't find an > equivalent to anything like pkg_add or the classic configure/make/make > install type of thing. > > Thank you in advance for your help folks. Truly. > I prefer minimalism in my interface and considering (what I see) to be > the pure beauty of the plan9 interface and design, I hope I can > someday make it my everyday OS. > In short; nice to meet ya :) Hope I can become as proficient here as > alot of you are. > --Q > > -- ============================= Petr A. Cejchan <c...@gli.cas.cz, tyap...@gmail.com> http://home.gli.cas.cz/cej/www/ http://www.facebook.com/cejchan work: +420-233 087 237 home/SMS: +420-720 121 721 ICQ: 583000501 =============================
