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From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>
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To: David Wiard <dave@srn.com>
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Subject: Re: apt-get, dselect?
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David Wiard wrote:
> 
> I've been using Debian on my other system for some time, now, and just
> installed FreeBSD for the first time on this system.  Is there anything
> similar to Debian's apt-get or dselect in FreeBSD?  When I installed
> FreeBSD over the weekend, I had some troubles and quite a few packages
> weren't installed (egcs, for one).  How do I extract that package from the
> CD without hunting it down?

Ports. Or packages. Take your pick. Packages are just precompiled ports.
They don't have quite the dependencies that dselect has, but they're
still very good. Just mount the second (or third or fourth) CD, or get a
TCP/IP connection going, and type make install in the egcs directory of
ports. The FreeBSD handbook explains this quite well.

I tried out ports seriously for the first time this weekend and it was
very good.

David Johnson


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