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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.


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