some simple Questions

[Nex6]

Been reading the FreeBSD handbook,

I installed portsnap:
ran:
portsnap fetch & extract & update

then installed portmanager and ran portmanager -u

its now updating.

thanks, for all the replys, in linux land, you either, use the distros tool
(if they have one) or if your on a yum or apt based disrto use that.


-Nex6

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >  >
> >
>
> Ah, something I forgot to add.
>
> The only reason the packages system exist is basically to bypass the
> compile time. For example, it would take a long time to compile things
> such as OpenOffice, xorg, or KDE. So instead of waiting that long, you
> can just install the pre-compiled package and it's ready to go. You
> don't have to wait for it to compile.
>