From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 7 12:25:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF05D41A2 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 12:25:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwlink.com (ip157.r7.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.173.157]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA01276; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 12:25:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <389F2944.A538021B@nwlink.com> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 12:21:24 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en 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 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? You can use /stand/sysinstall, that will take you back to the installation menu where you can do a post install configuration and install additional packages. Or, you can use the ports collection (man ports), which compiles a package from source code for you automatically. Many people rave about the port system, but for me installing binary packages is easier. -- R Joseph Wright *I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues --Duke Ellington* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message