From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 9 3:10:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nbux.com (ASte-Genev-Bois-101-1-2-99.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.252.179.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B39E37B719 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 03:10:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@nbux.com) Received: from swanlake (fgw.pgsm-group.com [194.79.179.131]) by nbux.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f29BA4t97007 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:10:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@nbux.com) Message-ID: <00a401c0a889$7aee08e0$0b3210ac@swanlake> From: "lifo" To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: ports / packages , best way ? Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:09:58 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, what is the best way to install software under freebsd, ports (via cvsup) or precompiled packages ? recently, for example, i have tried to install xfree 4.0.2 (xfree86-4.0.2_6) package under my laptop, and i doesn't manage to configure it properly because there ware missing xkb map... I didn't try to install it with ports. What is the best ports or packages ? thanks in advance... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message