From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 08:35:58 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 721AF16A420 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:35:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout5.cac.washington.edu (mxout5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CAA943D45 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:35:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout5.cac.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id k0H8ZviL032067 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:35:57 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.0.23] (dsl254-013-145.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.13.145]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id k0H8ZgVY030467 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:35:51 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <43CC9A1C.5060707@altern.org> References: <20060117003256.P28752@ganymede.hub.org> <43CC9A1C.5060707@altern.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Garrett Cooper Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:36:42 -0800 To: FreeBSD Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' 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 08:35:58 -0000 On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:17 PM, Gregory Nou wrote: > 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 >> > 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 Actually yum's a means for updating that's meant to replace the Redhat Network Tool or whatever it was called back in RH9.0 and RHE, which comes as primarily a command line tool I thought. As far as I know is only available for Fedora-a product primarily made for desktop users made by Redhat. -Garrett