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Subject: Re: Which is the right package to install
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On Apr 29, 2004, at 10:30 PM, Stephen Liu wrote:

>>
>> Those aren't packages.  Either compile the port (in
>> which case you
>> don't have to worry about what to download) or
>> download the package
>> from the freebsd.org ftp site.
>
> Hi Kris,
>
> Tks for your advice.
>
> firefox-0.8 is not available on port.  I have searched
> following URL manually.
>
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.2-release/ 
> Latest/
>

firefox 0.8 certainly is available in the ports collection  
(www/firefox), it's just that  packages for releases are not updated.   
See http://www.freebsd.org/ports for information about the ports  
collection, packages, and how to use them.

Kris