From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 12:31:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC97316A4DE for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:31:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jail.smorris.com (jail.smorris.com [204.42.254.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD3C143FBF for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:31:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shawn@jail.smorris.com) Received: from jail.smorris.com (jail.smorris.com [204.42.254.20]) by jail.smorris.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h9GJUOwb016213; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:30:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shawn@jail.smorris.com) Received: (from shawn@localhost) by jail.smorris.com (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h9GJUNhc016212; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:30:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:30:23 -0400 From: Shawn Morris To: Dinesh Nadarajah Message-ID: <20031016193023.GD14773@smorris.com> References: <20031016145900.93573.qmail@web80401.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031016145900.93573.qmail@web80401.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Howto find packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:31:53 -0000 whereis eg. [shawn@astro:~]$ whereis bash2 bash2: /usr/ports/shells/bash2 [shawn@astro:~]$ On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:59:00AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > Hi: > > I come form the Debian Linux world and would like to know how I can > information about packages for installation. I use prots to install > some, but many of them I just want to install binary files. > > For eample, in Debian, I can use "apt-cache search mozilla" and this > will list all packages with mozilla in it and then I can select the > package for installation. > > In FreeBSD, when I run "pkg_add -r mozilla" I keep getting an error > stating that it could not download package ftp://....../mozilla.tgz. > > Is there a better way to find what ackages are available for > installation? > > Thanks in advance. > > -D > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Shawn Morris NTT/Verio IP Engineering v:312.621.7422 f:520.447.7082 shawn@smorris.com smorris@verio.net