From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 18 05:55:46 2003 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 2224116A4B3 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 05:55:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccimhc02.asp.att.net (sccimhc02.asp.att.net [63.240.76.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E13943FBF for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 05:55:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david.fleck@mchsi.com) Received: from grond (12-216-14-105.client.mchsi.com[12.216.14.105]) by sccimhc02.asp.att.net (sccimhc02) with SMTP id <20031018125544im200m8i3he>; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 12:55:44 +0000 Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 07:55:43 -0500 (CDT) From: David Fleck Sender: dcf@grond.sourballs.org To: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20031018075323.N29978@grond.sourballs.org> References: <20031016145900.93573.qmail@web80401.mail.yahoo.com> <20031016154406.GA5114@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20031016160121.GA14726@users.munk.nu> <20031016160355.GA15287@users.munk.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: Howto find packages 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: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 12:55:46 -0000 On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Simon Rutishauser wrote: > But, apt-cache isn't yet finished there. You can also run > > apt-cache show gnomeicu > > which presents you lots of details about the one package with this name: [...] > is there something like that for FreeBSD, too? pkg_info will provide most, if not all, of that information, provided you feed it the right command line options. -- David Fleck david.fleck@mchsi.com