From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 27 14:47:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1027837B416 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 14:47:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.86.84]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sat, 27 Apr 2002 15:54:26 -0400 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 6E275BB5E; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 15:37:15 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: ARUN G NAIR , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a package manager for FreeBSD ? Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 15:37:15 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] 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: 8bit Message-Id: <20020427193715.6E275BB5E@i8k.babbleon.org> 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 On Saturday 27 April 2002 06:06 am, ARUN G NAIR wrote: | Hello All, | | I am planning to buy FreeBSD 4.5 .I have been using RH | linux for some time.It was easy to install things on | it.I heard that there was no package manager for | FBSD.Is that right ? No, there is. THere is pkg_add / pkg_delete / etc. to manage binary packages, and the ports collection to build code from source in a fully automated way. It's all a lot cleaner than the Linux wasy of managing things. | Does FBSD support rpm's .I am | planning to download java 1.4 for FBSD.Which should i | download, the rpm or the tar shell script ? FreeBSD doesn't support .rpm's in *general* since FreeBSD is not a Linux distribution, but some ports actually work by installing rpm's. There is a package to hangle rpms that you can install if you've enabled the Linux emulation feature of FreeBSD. In general, it's best to install FreeBSD-native version of things rather than Linux versions where you can; Netscape 4 and java are two of the rare exceptions, plus of course those programs which don't exist in a portable form. | Kindly Reply. | | Arun | | __________________________________________________ | Do You Yahoo!? | Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness | http://health.yahoo.com | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org If you smell the smoke you don't need to be told what you've got to do; Yet there's a certain breed, so very in-between, they'd rather take a vote. -- DEVO -- Here To Go To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message