From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 14 21:52:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8963437B8EF for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:52:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 97341 invoked by uid 211); 15 Jun 2000 04:52:13 -0000 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:22:12 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Linda Foley Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system Message-ID: <20000615102212.B97293@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Linda Foley , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <39484FAA.89177888@rocler.qc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39484FAA.89177888@rocler.qc.ca>; from lfoley@rocler.qc.ca on Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:38:18PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Linda Foley said on Jun 14, 2000 at 23:38:18: > Hi, > does FreeBSD have a good package system? Can I find most software > in that package format? Is there a tool like apt-get in Linux Debian > (which automatically downloads the package and dependancies and installs > everything)? Yes, it does all that. man pkg_add However, if your machine is reasonably fast (so that compiling a normal package from source won't take forever) and you have a reasonable internet connection, I'd suggest you use the ports tree instead. See the handbook for details. Once the ports tree is installed on your system (it may occupy 100-120 MB and contains information on around 3500 packages) all you have to do to install, say, gnome is cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome make install clean this will retrieve the source files from their ftp sites or from www.freebsd.org, all dependencies (gtk, libpng, etc, whatever you don't already have installed), build and install everything, and clean up all the work areas afterwards. R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message