From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 30 21:38:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F07BA106566B for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:38:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-111.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-111.bluehost.com [69.89.18.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0F078FC08 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:38:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12529 invoked by uid 0); 30 Jan 2010 21:38:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by outboundproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 30 Jan 2010 21:38:15 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=lFFspra1EKXSv/AclmDkqWCuF6aRKEoxGXDLCNP++qHxHz61BbBRY3b5Gyxg9FXuUMlFM5xj+pzjwmECtquP5HP8wOSozIMZi+1nYfIK2Yo0PPn4+JJSJPRf8ruRKBHc; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NbL1B-0006CQ-ON for questions@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:38:15 -0700 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:29:51 -0700 Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:29:51 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20100130212951.GA86118@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.org References: <881950.49266.qm@web31101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <881950.49266.qm@web31101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Cc: Subject: Re: Pain finding packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:38:16 -0000 --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:48:23AM -0800, Joe Springer wrote: > Hi. >=20 > I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After > installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some > packages. For example, samba. >=20 > I found that >=20 > pkg_add -r samba=20 >=20 > fails. I need to know specifically the samba version to install it.=20 >=20 > To install, I needed do this: > pkg_add -r samba3 >=20 > This is difficult. Do I need to look up every package in advance on > your website to understand what version I need to install? >=20 > Isn't there a way to specify "Install the latest version of some > package that is appropriate to the version of my installed FreeBSD"? Unfortunately, there isn't -- sometimes. Some ports (and their associated packages) will have the name you expect. Some will not. The names of binary packages should have the same names as their respective ports, at least most of the time, as far as I'm aware. Thus, if you have the ports tree on your system, you can at least check locally to see what various software installs will be called. If not, you may have to search online. I don't use binary packages much, personally, so I'm not exactly an expert in that regard. Something I said may turn out to be mistaken. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAktkpM8ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXbVACg7jszz+qVtQPGLYCWm7DbY5aO OsEAoPuGU+b1eycBUlEnLv1oqC5hDNam =xuKh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s--