From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 29 8: 5:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC4F737B71D for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:05:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lowell@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f2TG5PE13793; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 11:05:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd@intelos.net Subject: Re: installing software References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 29 Mar 2001 11:05:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: freebsd@intelos.net's message of "28 Mar 2001 21:44:19 +0200" Message-ID: <44bsqkh86z.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 32 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG freebsd@intelos.net (Ashby Gochenour) writes: > 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. Installing the ports system is one easy approach for this sort of thing; you can use "make search" locally, or if you prefer a web interface, you can use the search facility at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ The handbook includes a whole section on the ports system, which is probably enough documentation to figure it out. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message