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On Wednesday 11 August 2004 07:23 pm, Peter Ryan wrote:
> How did everyone here find out
> about the various utitilities
> available for managing ports and
> packages ?
>
> I realised the lack of answers to
> my recent questions about KDE nad
> openldap meant that it was
> generally felt that i should have been
> able to dig the information out
> from somewhere.
>
> I have got some useful answers now
> but searching google and archives
> resulted in days of frustration. (Probably
> using wrong criteria or something)
>
> Many people here seem very
> comfortable with all the port
> management issues, and I am
> wondering how you came by this.
>
> As an ultra newbie, I have found this
> whole area one of the most difficult
> to get an effective practical grasp of.
>
> Thanks
> Peter

Here is a link you may find interesting

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html

-Mike