From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Dec 13 19:58:33 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09FFDC76776 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 19:58:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cody@sysop.ca) Received: from watney.sysop.ca (watney.sysop.ca [104.207.159.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3E72269 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 19:58:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cody@sysop.ca) Received: from mbx.sysop.ca (mbx.sysop.ca [172.16.0.2]) by watney.sysop.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F33FA036; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:48:31 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mbx.sysop.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A29185CA71E; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:48:31 -0700 (MST) Received: from mbx.sysop.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mbx.sysop.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id JI2AMzWAaPpS; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:48:30 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mbx.sysop.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55DBD1861F84C; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:48:30 -0700 (MST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sysop.ca Received: from mbx.sysop.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mbx.sysop.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id Uq-9EE52qgHT; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:48:30 -0700 (MST) Received: from mbx.sysop.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mbx.sysop.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35C6A1861F84B; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:48:30 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:48:29 -0700 (MST) From: Cody Swanson To: Harry Schmalzbauer Cc: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <1836730304.31972.1481658509280.JavaMail.zimbra@sysop.ca> In-Reply-To: <58504DDF.5060703@omnilan.de> References: <58504DDF.5060703@omnilan.de> Subject: Re: No pkg(8) database found! 11.0-RELEASE DVD based setup. What next? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.1.24.20] X-Mailer: Zimbra 8.6.0_GA_1153 (ZimbraWebClient - FF50 (Win)/8.6.0_GA_1153) Thread-Topic: No pkg(8) database found! 11.0-RELEASE DVD based setup. What next? Thread-Index: q7NfPKySPVpU5sxyMCO1futZTuw84w== X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 19:58:33 -0000 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"