From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 14:49:27 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 27D0C37B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:49:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-r01.mx.aol.com (imo-r01.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 583E643F93 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:49:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nagylzs@netscape.net) Received: from nagylzs@netscape.net by imo-r01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36.3.) id n.4.8b37366 (16237) for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:49:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from netscape.net (3e70dc9a.adsl.enternet.hu [62.112.220.154]) by air-in03.mx.aol.com (v94.29) with ESMTP id MAILININ31-3f6d3ef22fde22b; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:49:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF22FDF.9090704@netscape.net> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:49:19 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3_Zsolt?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: hu, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) Subject: Totally newbie - install problems 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: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:49:27 -0000 Hi All! I'm totally new to FreeBSD. I used Linux before but I decided to try FreeBSD. I just downloaded FreeBSD 4.8 from a public ftp site and installed a brand new system with X and full development tools. I have some questions. I read about the differences between Linux and FreeBSD. I like the idea that there is only one official FreeBSD. I'm going to develop cross platform, multi tiered applications using Python and it is nice to have a free and compact system which I can offer to my clients. But I need other packages like "wxPython", "PyCrypto" and others for my work. I know I can download the source code and compile them. I could also find binaries but the dependency tree is endless (and I had version problems too). I read the comparison where someone said FreeBSD is even better than Debian in this matter. This was one reason why I decided to use FreeBSD. I know the solution is out there but I don't know where it is. I'm looking for the FreeBSD equivalent of apt-get in Debian. Probably I will need to setup several client computers in the end, so an automated installation would be the best (download and install required packages/ports for the selected package/port automatically). Can you help me? Sorry for the long e-mail. Thanks in advance. Laci 1.0