From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 4 8:17:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maild.telia.com (maild.telia.com [194.22.190.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF9A314DC4 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 08:17:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se) Received: from d1o68.telia.com (root@d1o68.telia.com [62.20.138.241]) by maild.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA03032; Tue, 4 May 1999 17:17:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu (t4o68p22.telia.com [62.20.139.142]) by d1o68.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA08434; Tue, 4 May 1999 17:17:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Tue, 4 May 1999 17:16:33 +0200 Message-ID: <01BE9651.DB67C180.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> From: Thomas Uhrfelt Reply-To: "thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se" To: "'Spamoff'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: SV: Packages - how do you use therm Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 16:33:35 +0200 Organization: Plymovent AB X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet-e-post/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello :) Hello Sire. > I've been going around in circles with these and am getting nowhere > depsite > having Greg's book and looking at the web site. Just got the book today, looks very impressive. When reading my answers, have in mind I am sort of a newbie, but I try =P. > 1) Can someone pleasqe expalin to me, succinctly, how you use > packages after > you have installed them using /stand/sysinstall OR pkg_add. I am not sure what you mean here, but if you mean how do I run the programs it's a matter of locating the binary and run. Use 'locate' if necessary. > I've done it both ways, I searched for their location. I've tried to > read the > files present and failed pretty much. What package do you have problems with? > Packages are supposed to be binary from what I understand, and ports > are src > that you build ??? That is a correct assumption yes. > 2) What's the advantage, if any, of using the ports ? I'm sure you > can > change locations but what else ? Ports are often more up to date than the binary packages. ( Gurus: if I am wrong here, so please correct me ). / Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message