Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:12:52 +0800 From: Canhua <dreameration@gmail.com> To: "Steven Susbauer" <stupendoussteve@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie question about pkg_add Message-ID: <b2bbfcb60810290312q3cd4e036wb267ed5ca8915af3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY122-F395A5ED8D3AE326755CC86BA260@phx.gbl> References: <BAY122-F395A5ED8D3AE326755CC86BA260@phx.gbl>
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Steven Susbauer <stupendoussteve@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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> I tried portinstall, although dependecies are install with port sources still. It take me a whole afternoon to portinstall math/py-neworkx, and it still doesn't complete as yet.
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