From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 6 19:23:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE40106566B for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:23:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from myndshell@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72B778FC1F for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:23:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from myndshell@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so18155waf.3 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:23:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=JMllHs9ygmCex1nhmOAk1mZwdzhqrXf3YEvafupqCLs=; b=k08rukfHVjWC7G4GWW28+UjqxZg5KWP93iR0gbVG0a36DPo6NYyUomm8TGHnuJemHxEqacy5z2pvDmpDFSIaQw5EQTHRkDq0cn7XitIwk15m+j2TZr439Lb9jqbVmNND8mb4Uf499Xijm9j3lP4Phl/c8GHUkgPJSUMkVrh+cQw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=PT6kGSCd/BFun0uqVdgVnunc/Q+P0QYKSlh2/YyctZw5XDrWHfCUtNERgNNYnZf4HSiNs9wnYobxTM9IzWCeKa2qrJ1hhsRD874lV+vcsyFhsqoR4aDt2X0s62vGlyOO3hlDIbfG01MC35pKruA1tmr1bL1D7OcQi1AAKp+YAxs= Received: by 10.114.37.1 with SMTP id k1mr360968wak.6.1204831396675; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:23:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.81.11 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:23:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <42779f7f0803061123x1fbf7a41p9069ef92fcac8b48@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:23:16 -0800 From: Nex6 To: "freebsd questions" In-Reply-To: <8d23ec860803061111u2e8f60ecn6faa965f7254005b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <42779f7f0803061032o1bdd967fr1fd3d8d01cf9cf73@mail.gmail.com> <8d23ec860803061109o28655d1fr4f8e86ef1806e492@mail.gmail.com> <8d23ec860803061111u2e8f60ecn6faa965f7254005b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: some simple Questions 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: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:23:18 -0000 Been reading the FreeBSD handbook, I installed portsnap: ran: portsnap fetch & extract & update then installed portmanager and ran portmanager -u its now updating. thanks, for all the replys, in linux land, you either, use the distros tool (if they have one) or if your on a yum or apt based disrto use that. -Nex6 On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Schiz0 wrote: > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Schiz0 wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Nex6 wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am new to Freebsd tho, long time Linux/Windows user. > > > > > > install software: > > > seems the way to to this is pkg_add -r software-name > > > > There are two ways to install software. Using packages (pkg_add) or > > using ports. See my response below for details on how to use ports. > > > > > > > system update: > > > still not sure? tho this is probly something really simple, seems > more the > > > one way to do it. > > > > FreeBSD comes with the source code for the entire system. So, to > > upgrade the system, you need to do two things: > > 1. Checkout the source code for whatever update you want to use > > 2. Compile and install that source code. > > > > For the first one, see: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html > > > > For the second one, see: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html > > > > > > > main difference between packages and ports? > > > > Packages are pre-compiled binaries (which are created from the ports). > > The ports collection contains small Makefiles. When you install from > > ports, it does the following: > > 1. Downloads the source code from whatever website it is hosted on. > > 2. Apply the FreeBSD patches/upgrades/whatever > > 3. Compile that source code > > 4. Install the binaries to the proper location > > > > > > > > thanks in adavnce. > > > > > > > Ah, something I forgot to add. > > The only reason the packages system exist is basically to bypass the > compile time. For example, it would take a long time to compile things > such as OpenOffice, xorg, or KDE. So instead of waiting that long, you > can just install the pre-compiled package and it's ready to go. You > don't have to wait for it to compile. >