From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 7 11: 6:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from math.udel.edu (math.udel.edu [128.175.16.7]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C766408B for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:06:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from math.udel.edu (sisyphus.math.udel.edu [128.175.16.167]) by math.udel.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA05806; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 14:06:54 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <389F17CD.2F148068@math.udel.edu> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 14:06:53 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk Organization: University of Delaware X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, de, ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Wiard Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apt-get, dselect? References: <3.0.5.32.20000207103906.0093c800@paladin.srn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The easiest way to install the packages on the CD is to use the /stand/sysinstall program. You want the configure option from the main menu. David Wiard wrote: > I've been using Debian on my other system for some time, now, and just > installed FreeBSD for the first time on this system. Is there anything > similar to Debian's apt-get or dselect in FreeBSD? When I installed > FreeBSD over the weekend, I had some troubles and quite a few packages > weren't installed (egcs, for one). How do I extract that package from the > CD without hunting it down? > > TIA > > -- > dave wiard (dave@srn.com) > > The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message