list files in FreeBSD ports tree package

Camilo Reyes camiloreyes82 at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 6 02:37:44 UTC 2008


The best way to do searches on a BSD system is to use good old 'locate,' or even 'find / -name <package>.' This will give you a result based on the ports package which you can then add using 'pkg_add -r <package name>.'

 Camilo
"Bono Vince Malum"

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> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:35:01 +0200
> From: "Simon Jolle" 
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> Hi FreeBSD users
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> I am searching for something similar to Red Hat's "rpm -q -l package"
> and Debian's "dpkg -L package".
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> cheers
> Simon
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