Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 01:20:26 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Faisal Gillani" <fasi_74@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports information & removal Message-ID: <15025.48826.732802.344297@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <86611571@toto.iv>
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Faisal Gillani <fasi_74@yahoo.com> types: > 1 How can we see which ports are install in our system ? pkg_info > 2 how can we remove selected ? pkg_delete, or if you installed from ports, "make deinstall" in the port directory. > 3 what does the install program show if it encounter any dependicies problem > ? It shows the dependencies being installed, or it halts showing the reason they couldn't be installed. > 4 why we call these ports why not pakages like other os ? Because they aren't the same thing. A package is a built binary of an application that you install on a system. You can get and install those if you want. A port is basically a canned tool for building and installing the binary from original sources, and includes the ability to build a package. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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