Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:22:03 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> To: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Joe Springer <joespr@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Pain finding packages Message-ID: <d36406631001310222i5c2cf4ado22f1b83adfb268c8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <a9f4a3861001301542w4af76598i2983b6f3aacb275e@mail.gmail.com> References: <881950.49266.qm@web31101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <a9f4a3861001301542w4af76598i2983b6f3aacb275e@mail.gmail.com>
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On 30 January 2010 23:42, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:48, Joe Springer <joespr@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After > installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For > example, samba. > > > > I found that > > > > pkg_add -r samba > > > > fails. I need to know specifically the samba version to install it. > > > > To install, I needed do this: > > pkg_add -r samba3 > > > > This is difficult. Do I need to look up every package in advance on your > website to understand what version I need to install? > > > > Isn't there a way to specify "Install the latest version of some package > that is appropriate to the version of my installed FreeBSD"? > > > > Thanks, > > Joe > > Not really. > > However, you should have installed a copy of the ports tree during the > creation of your machine. > > Here are your tools: csup (or portsnap, either of which will keep your > ports tree current), portupgrade (or portmaster or one of a couple of > others, to upgrade your current ports) and make. csup is native, and > portupgrade seems to be more commonly used than the others of its > kind. > > For make, do the following, after csup (or an alternative): > > cd /usr/ports > make search name=samba | less > or > cd /usr/ports > make search key=samba | less > > Then browse that list to see what most particularly applies to your needs. > > > HTH, > > Kurt > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > he is a one liner to update your ports tree csup -h cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile you might want to replace uk with your country code though
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