Howto find packages

[Shawn Morris]

whereis <pkgname>

eg.
[shawn at astro:~]$ whereis bash2
bash2: /usr/ports/shells/bash2
[shawn at astro:~]$

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:59:00AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
> 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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