From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 28 9:25:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beowulf.utmb.edu (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C5514DD8 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:25:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by beowulf.utmb.edu (8.9.3/8.9.2) id LAA00656; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:25:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bdodson) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:25:29 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199907281625.LAA00656@beowulf.utmb.edu> From: "M. L. Dodson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Roy Bettle Cc: "Questions List FreeBSD.org" Subject: Reference index/list/etc. In-Reply-To: <379F2B05.CF320B2B@criterion-group.com> References: <379F2B05.CF320B2B@criterion-group.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roy Bettle writes: > Quickie: > > I am something of a newbie to FreeBSD/open source. Is there a "master > list" sort of reference somewhere that lists out all the jillions of > apps that come with FreeBSD and who wrote them/what they do? > > Like, what is "egcs"? "Tsk"? Etc. I feel like this is such a newbie > question, but I am really hoping that such a reference exists so I know > "what to use/where it is/how to use it" as I continue getting familiar > with FreeBSD. > > I'm going through the install/config and I would like to be able to make > intelligent choices as to what packages/ports to include, etc. > > Thanks for you help. > > RAB [deleta] Well, the answer to that depends on what you installed. If you installed the complete ports tree (and you really should if you have the disk space) and you have X installed and configured, then I would suggest that you install the pib ("ports index browser") port (in the sysutils directory). This a tcl/tk application that allows you to browse the ports collection and get the contents of the pkg/COMMENT and pkg/DESCR files by the point and grunt method. You can also do make extract, make install, etc with the mouse. If you don't have X or the complete ports collection, then the INDEX file can be used by the following incantation (from /usr/ports): make search key=pib where pib is an example of a keyword. This will print all the ports that reference the string "pib" in some way, including the pib port. This will only give you the pkg/COMMENT information (a one line description). Hope this helps. -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message