some simple Questions
Schiz0
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Thu Mar 6 19:09:24 UTC 2008
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Nex6 <myndshell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am new to Freebsd tho, long time Linux/Windows user.
>
> install software:
> seems the way to to this is pkg_add -r software-name
There are two ways to install software. Using packages (pkg_add) or
using ports. See my response below for details on how to use ports.
> system update:
> still not sure? tho this is probly something really simple, seems more the
> one way to do it.
FreeBSD comes with the source code for the entire system. So, to
upgrade the system, you need to do two things:
1. Checkout the source code for whatever update you want to use
2. Compile and install that source code.
For the first one, see:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
For the second one, see:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
> main difference between packages and ports?
Packages are pre-compiled binaries (which are created from the ports).
The ports collection contains small Makefiles. When you install from
ports, it does the following:
1. Downloads the source code from whatever website it is hosted on.
2. Apply the FreeBSD patches/upgrades/whatever
3. Compile that source code
4. Install the binaries to the proper location
>
> thanks in adavnce.
>
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