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Date:      Tue, 24 Jan 2006 07:50:33 -0500
From:      Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com>
To:        Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Post-Install update steps?
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Is there a way to tell which are available as packages?  I would have
guessed gqview would have been, but apparently it is not.  I'm also not
certain I am doing the commands right, though I was able to install
subversion successfully via packages.

thanks!

On 1/24/06, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:
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> Xn Nooby writes:
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> >  I assume the available packages are a subset of the available
> >  ports, probably just the most popular ones.  Or are they all
> >  supposed to be available?
>
>         Some ports are unavailable as packages due to licensing
> restrictions, most notably many versions of Java.
>
>
>                                 Robert Huff
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