How to Update my Freebsd packages kernel and Core

[Jacques Manukyan]

First off, welcome to FreeBSD. As the others stated, FreeBSD is quite 
different in that there is a distinction between installing/updating 3rd 
party software (called ports), or the base operating system (kernel and 
system).

There are multiple ways to update the base system and kernel as well as 
the ports. You can choose to do binary installs or build from source. I 
prefer building from source when installing ports or updating the 
kernel/system since I like to control everything.

One great thing about FreeBSD is that there are multiple ways to do 
things so find what you feel best suits your needs and use it.

The handbook is the best place to start: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

I recommend you look at the following sections:

Installing and managing ports:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html

Updating ports and the operating system (kernel/system):
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html

-- Jacques Manukyan


Panos wrote:
> Hello I'm new to Freebsd and I would like to know if there is anything 
> like apt-get for upgrating everything in my Freebsd. If  not Could you 
> tell me how I can do it.
> Some of my packages are from ports and some using the sysinstall and I 
> install them from the cd.
> I use Freebsd 7.1
>
> thank you very much.
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