Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 04:15:18 -0600 From: dolmant <dolmant@dolmant.net> To: ARUN G NAIR <virtualarun@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a package manager for FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <200204270415.18103.dolmant@dolmant.net> In-Reply-To: <20020427100609.67290.qmail@web20810.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020427100609.67290.qmail@web20810.mail.yahoo.com>
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> I am planning to buy FreeBSD 4.5 You can download it free, fyi. > I heard that there was no package manager for > FBSD.Is that right ? No, there is a package manager for FBSD. Read about it at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html > Does FBSD support rpm's . Not really, but anything that you can get via rpms is probably=20 attainable with packages or ports. > I am planning to download java 1.4 for FBSD.Which should i > download, the rpm or the tar shell script ? If you're talking about the jdk: try to install the java/linux-jdk14=20 port. It will tell you the version of the tar shell script you need,=20 and then complete the install. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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