From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 11:44:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cfw.com (flanders.ntelos.net [216.12.0.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB41337B728 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:44:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@intelos.net) Received: (qmail 26705 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2001 14:44:04 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by flanders.intelos.net with SMTP; 28 Mar 2001 14:44:04 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:44:04 -0500 (EST) From: Ashby Gochenour To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: installing software Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey Guys, I have a question about installing software. What is the best way to locate and install? I've been using /stand/sysinstall so far, but that takes a long time for me to find what I am looking for if I even do find it. For example, I want to install netscape and imapd on a 4.2 system. I've spent about an hour going through package groups and finally listed all packages and still didn't find what I was looking for. In debian linux, I would just do: host> apt-cache search packagename host> apt-get install package.deb I've been very impressed by FreeBSD so far, and would be even more impressed if I could figure out a better way to find and install packages :) Any help or pointers to a FM to RTFM would be much appriciated. Thank you, Ashby Gochenour Unix Administration NTELOS NOC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message