From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 15:03:41 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 7A71937B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:03:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B10E143F75 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from www.pursued-with.net (localhost.pursued-with.net [127.0.0.1]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with SMTP id h5JM4C3e015456; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:04:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from 192.85.47.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user imap) by new.host.name with HTTP; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:04:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <57838.192.85.47.1.1056060252.squirrel@new.host.name> In-Reply-To: <3EF22FDF.9090704@netscape.net> References: <3EF22FDF.9090704@netscape.net> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:04:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kevin Stevens" To: Nagy L=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E1szl=F3_Zsolt?= User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Totally newbie - install problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:03:41 -0000 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. You want the "ports" collection; located by default in /usr/ports. If you didn't install it initially, you can do so with sysinstall. Ports are source code bundles along with FreeBSD tweaks and installation defaults. You want to use "cvsup" to update the port information database regularly, and it's recommended that you use the "portupgrade" utility to handle port interdependencies. See the FreeBSD handbook for details on the above. Having done so, my routine for updating all 100+ applications on my machine is reduced to: cvsup-ports ; Make sure my ports database is up-to-date pkgdb -F ; Make sure my installed packages database is consistent portupgrade -ra ; Download, compile, and install all updated applications BTW, both the apps you specified are indeed in the ports collection presently. KeS