From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 28 08:14:50 2004 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 9207916A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:14:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cableone.net (scanmail2.cableone.net [24.116.0.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2441043D67 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:14:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com) Received: from vixen42. (unverified [24.119.123.61]) by smail2.cableone.net (SurgeMail 1.5d2) with ESMTP id 5293087 for multiple; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:03:40 -0700 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 08:12:15 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox To: "Roland Wells" Message-Id: <20040428081215.31ad210c@vixen42.> In-Reply-To: <003301c42cc7$1b66ea20$0c03a8c0@internal.thebeatbox.org> References: <003301c42cc7$1b66ea20$0c03a8c0@internal.thebeatbox.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com cc: putnam@speakeasy.net cc: 'Unix Help' Subject: Re: Is this Ok 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: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:14:50 -0000 On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 21:18:28 -0500 "Roland Wells" wrote: > The ports collection is a collection of over 10,000 applications, > you probably do not want to install them all!! Till it hits something conflicting and dies ^_^ > As far as looking for specific ports, use the webpage: > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html Once you get the hang of it all and feel like learning how to use portupgrade, cvsup, and the like, something I suggest is http://www.freshports.org/ . It is basically like the other link pasted, but it has info on port updates.