From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 1 15:29:13 2002 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 D6A6937B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:29:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from boris.st.hmc.edu (boris.ST.HMC.Edu [134.173.63.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57D0543E6A for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:29:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff@unixconsults.com) Received: from boris.st.hmc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by boris.st.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g91MSZVZ011429; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:28:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jeff@localhost) by boris.st.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g91MSZQL011426; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:28:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff@unixconsults.com) X-Authentication-Warning: boris.st.hmc.edu: jeff owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:28:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Jirsa X-X-Sender: jeff@boris.st.hmc.edu To: Bryan Hodgson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Default software package management on FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <20021001222424.GG6943@asimov.eecs.lehigh.edu> Message-ID: <20021001152625.E11396-100000@boris.st.hmc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter on boris.st.hmc.edu 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 Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Bryan Hodgson wrote: > > Well, this sounds to me like a "and why didn't you find an answer > to that one?" kind of problem. > > I've inherited some FreeBSD machines. And with a moderate amount > of looking I haven't been able to turn up what kind of software > package management tools are used with FreeBSD (as in pkgadd, > swinstall, rpm, & so forth ..). > > pkg_add(1), /stand/sysinstall (probably not what you want - but it will fetch and install packages if you want), and check out /usr/ports (or www.freebsd.org/ports if /usr/ports is empty or does not exist). - Jeff -- Jeff Jirsa jeff@unixconsults.com -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message