Newbie question about pkg_add (Canhua)

[Kayven Riese]

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> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:12:52 +0800
> From: Canhua <dreameration at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Newbie question about pkg_add
> To: "Steven Susbauer" <stupendoussteve at hotmail.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
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> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Steven Susbauer
> <stupendoussteve at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > ports-mgmt/portupgrade is a useful tool for easily getting packages and
> > ports, it includes the tool portinstall which does what it says it does.
> > By running "portinstall -P pkgname", it will install a port and
> > dependencies with packages if available, otherwise they are built from
> > source.
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> > portsman and portmanager are some other frontend tools that can help
> > with package administration, it's really up to your own tastes.
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> > -Steve>
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> I tried portinstall, although dependecies are install with port sources
> still.
> It take me a whole afternoon to portinstall math/py-neworkx, and it
> still doesn't complete as yet.
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Go to sleep! it will be ready in the morning maybe! {:)

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