From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 29 05:07:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8480E106564A for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:07:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stupendoussteve@hotmail.com) Received: from bay0-omc1-s41.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc1-s41.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.113]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 592CC8FC12 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:07:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stupendoussteve@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com ([207.46.10.247]) by bay0-omc1-s41.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:07:25 -0700 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:07:25 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 207.46.10.254 by by122fd.bay122.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:07:20 GMT X-Originating-IP: [68.225.143.90] X-Originating-Email: [stupendoussteve@hotmail.com] X-Sender: stupendoussteve@hotmail.com From: "Steven Susbauer" To: dreameration@gmail.com Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:07:20 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Oct 2008 05:07:25.0230 (UTC) FILETIME=[3B6DFCE0:01C93984] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie question about pkg_add X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:07:25 -0000 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:14:34AM +0800, Canhua wrote: >>Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD. >>I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that: >>Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/ >>FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py-networkx.tbz: >>File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) >> >>although I know that py-network does exist in /usr/ports. >>Actually I could go to /usr/ports/math/py-networkx and make install >>using ports means. >> >>Then I could learn from this that there are softwares that could be >>install from ports while not able to be added from package system? >>Am I right? > >Correct -- not every port has a package. > ports-mgmt/portupgrade is a useful tool for easily getting packages and ports, it includes the tool portinstall which does what it says it does. By running "portinstall -P pkgname", it will install a port and dependencies with packages if available, otherwise they are built from source. portsman and portmanager are some other frontend tools that can help with package administration, it's really up to your own tastes. -Steve