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Date:      Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:48:29 -0700 (MST)
From:      Cody Swanson <freebsd@sysop.ca>
To:        Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd@omnilan.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: No pkg(8) database found! 11.0-RELEASE DVD based setup. What next?
Message-ID:  <1836730304.31972.1481658509280.JavaMail.zimbra@sysop.ca>
In-Reply-To: <58504DDF.5060703@omnilan.de>
References:  <58504DDF.5060703@omnilan.de>

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I'm not familiar with GUI pkg management in FreeBSD as I don't use X on any of my FreeBSD hosts however TrueOS has a GUI for package management. TrueOS is the new name for PC-BSD which is a distribution of FreeBSD targeted at desktop/laptop users. You may be able to install the TrueOS/PCBSD package management gui on FreeBSD or you may want to simply install TrueOS. That's what I chose for my daughter's laptop.

----- On Dec 13, 2016, at 12:37 PM, Harry Schmalzbauer freebsd@omnilan.de wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> my doughter get's her first laptop for christmas.
> While preparing, I went the same way I did about 18 years ago with
> FreeBSD 3.0, when I was new to FreeBSD and was amazed about the success
> rate.
> Needless to mention that usually I build my own packages and have decent
> datacenter infrastructure in our company...
> But I'm failing using bsdconfig(8) :-(
> 
> My simple question is: How do I install FreeBSD packages offline?
> I want to try out regular X11-related packages like KDE or LXDE... In a
> way my 12 year old doughter can follow.
> 
> No REPOS_DIR, no pkg(8) cli (how could she know what software there is?!).
> Simply a curses based GUI to select packages for installation.
> 
> Is this another pkg(8) fallout?
> No way for beginners to get a graphical system?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Harry
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