From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 17:58:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF9737B71F for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:58:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org) Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 93ABAD2; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:58:36 -0900 (AKST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: Ashby Gochenour , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing software Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:58:36 -0900 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01032816583600.03699@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 28 March 2001 10:44, Ashby Gochenour wrote: > 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 I think the ports are what you are looking for. You can install the ports tree from /stand/sysinstall. They are nicely grouped and most fetch, make and install with just a make install command. You can get the info on ports at: http://www.freebsd.org/ports Hope this helps Beech ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Network Manager - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message