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Date:      Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:12:52 +0800
From:      Canhua <dreameration@gmail.com>
To:        "Steven Susbauer" <stupendoussteve@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Newbie question about pkg_add
Message-ID:  <b2bbfcb60810290312q3cd4e036wb267ed5ca8915af3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BAY122-F395A5ED8D3AE326755CC86BA260@phx.gbl>
References:  <BAY122-F395A5ED8D3AE326755CC86BA260@phx.gbl>

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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Steven Susbauer
<stupendoussteve@hotmail.com> wrote:
> ports-mgmt/portupgrade is a useful tool for easily getting packages and
> ports, it includes the tool portinstall which does what it says it does.
> By running "portinstall -P pkgname", it will install a port and
> dependencies with packages if available, otherwise they are built from
> source.
>
> portsman and portmanager are some other frontend tools that can help
> with package administration, it's really up to your own tastes.
>
> -Steve>

I tried portinstall, although dependecies are install with port sources still.
It take me a whole afternoon to portinstall math/py-neworkx, and it
still doesn't complete as yet.



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