Re: [ossig] A very lengthy article on installing and securing FreeBSD

[Tze-Meng Tan <tmtan@opensos.net>]

On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 06:00 PM, Seah Hong Yee wrote:
> There's another side to this. If you have apt-get and URPMI configured
> properly, dependencies are satisfied automatically rather than 
> download them
> and compile separately.  I used to love the ./configure make && make 
> install
> routine, but after discovering urpmi, I rarely use them unless there's 
> a real
> reason for it.  I can't remember which was it,  I think freeBSD has 
> some
> similar package management tools.
FreeBSD has what is called the ports system. basically it is a 
directory tree with files in it which contain information about the 
application or library etc
for example, xine would be in

/usr/ports/multimedia/xine

to install xine you just need to cd to that directory and type "make 
install clean"
wait while it compiles and if all goes well the package will be 
installed, and registered with the package manager

later if you want to update it

just run "portupgrade xine"

thats it

Cheers

Meng


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