From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 21 15:19:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C95116A4D9 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:19:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E1A543D31 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:19:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arden@nildram.co.uk) Received: from 10.0.0.6 (81-6-240-162.dyn.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.240.162]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4553D25549B for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:19:52 +0100 (BST) From: arden To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1087831102.2421.21.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4-8mdk Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:18:23 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: package managment X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:19:56 -0000 hi all I'm just getting to know my way round BSD now Ive got my box running and am happy with it i want to make it more useful. on my Linux boxes i set up ftp sources of applications (most of which i now keep a local copy.) and then just ask the package management tool to install it as long as all the deps are in my list it then dose it all for me. I'm guessing this is similar in bsd ? 1st question is, is there a list somewhere of available sites 2nd is how do i point my box at them 3rd what is the command to tell it to install them thanks in advance arden