From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 27 3:15:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from orthanc.dolmant.net (res092117.halls.colostate.edu [129.82.92.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C7537B41A for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 03:15:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mythran.dolmant.net (mythran.dolmant.net [10.0.0.3]) by orthanc.dolmant.net (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3RAFaqT004942; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 04:15:36 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from dolmant@dolmant.net) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: dolmant Reply-To: dolmant@dolmant.net To: ARUN G NAIR , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a package manager for FreeBSD ? Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 04:15:18 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <20020427100609.67290.qmail@web20810.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020427100609.67290.qmail@web20810.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200204270415.18103.dolmant@dolmant.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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