Howto find packages

Dinesh Nadarajah dinesh_list at sbcglobal.net
Thu Oct 16 07:59:00 PDT 2003


Hi:

I come form the Debian Linux world and would like to know how I can
information about packages for installation. I use prots to install
some, but many of them I just want to install binary files.

For eample, in Debian, I can use "apt-cache search mozilla" and this
will list all packages with mozilla in it and then I can select the
package for installation.

In FreeBSD, when I run "pkg_add -r mozilla" I keep getting an error
stating that it could not download package ftp://....../mozilla.tgz.

Is there a better way to find what ackages are available for
installation?

Thanks in advance.

-D


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