[nycbug-talk] one more question

[Pete Wright]

G.Rosamond wrote:

>
> On Jul 15, 2004, at 5:28 PM, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:
>
>> what does one use for package management on this thing?  we need 
>> sudo, bash,
>> webmin... blah blah blah
>> -- 
>
>
> the two ways  I use are the ports collection and sysinstall
>
> alot of people are fans of pkg_add -r, but someone else can talk about 
> that.
>
> Check to see if you have ports in /usr/ports.  This is the feature 
> that every other OS slobbers over...
>
> If it didn't install with the initial install, download the ports from 
> the relevant ftp site.
>
> cd to the directory of the port you want to install, and type make 
> install and make clean if you want.
>
> Sysinstall is the cutely gui located in /stand.
>
i love pkg_add -r my self, it's one thing I've found helpfull, 
especially coming from working on alot of debian machines.  You can also 
goto www.freshports.org.  You can search for the package you want there 
and then either install it from ports, or do a pkg_add -r my_pkg

hth

-p


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