From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 11:58:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from envy.geekhouse.net (envy.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0C0937B6A2 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:58:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jim@localhost) by envy.geekhouse.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0MJw4Z71227; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:58:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:58:04 -0800 From: Jim Mock To: jimmy fix Cc: Jonathan Chen , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: rpm on freebsd - beginner Message-ID: <20010122115803.B69220@envy.geekhouse.net> Reply-To: jim@geekhouse.net References: <3AA5EBB9@operamail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.13i In-Reply-To: <3AA5EBB9@operamail.com>; from jim_fix@operamail.com on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 02:45:17PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 at 14:45:17 -0500, jimmy fix wrote: > basically i wanna change the window manager and put KDE so i can > configure ppp (its easier from there) and put netscape ( i got it on > rpm only) so i can go on the web, do cvs, chech for native versions as > u said etc... You don't need RPMs for any of that stuff. Learn how to use the ports collection. See http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/ports.html. - jim -- jim mock work: jim@osd.bsdi.com | jim@FreeBSD.org http://soupnazi.org/ BSDi Open Source Div | http://bsdi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message