From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 07:17:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F1116A420 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:17:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gregorynou@altern.org) Received: from esemetz.metz.supelec.fr (esemetz.metz.supelec.fr [193.48.224.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E6C343D48 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:17:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gregorynou@altern.org) Received: from smtp.metz.supelec.fr (smtp.metz.supelec.fr [193.48.224.205]) by esemetz.metz.supelec.fr (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id k0H7HnY01729 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:17:49 +0100 Received: from [193.48.225.2] (nou.rez-metz.supelec.fr [193.48.225.2]) by smtp.metz.supelec.fr (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k0H784B04521; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:08:04 +0100 Message-ID: <43CC9A1C.5060707@altern.org> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:17:48 +0100 From: Gregory Nou User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060113) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marc G. Fournier" References: <20060117003256.P28752@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20060117003256.P28752@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rpm equivalent to 'pkg_add -r'? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:17:53 -0000 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > As the subject asks, is there an equivalent? I'm trying to install > linux apache2 on a FreeBSD box, and would like have rpm do as much as > possible as far as getting the dependencies and downloading them ... > > baring this, is there a better tool to use then rpm? > > thanks ... > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > look at the end of rpm man page, there is a section INSTALL AND UPGRADE OPTIONS. Concerning other tools, the poor experience I have with RH showed me that rpm is a great tool. Maybe you may try yum, which, iirc, is a GUI for rpm. Cheers, -- Gregory