On Wednesday 11 August 2004 07:23 pm, Peter Ryan wrote: > How did everyone here find out > about the various utitilities > available for managing ports and > packages ? > > I realised the lack of answers to > my recent questions about KDE nad > openldap meant that it was > generally felt that i should have been > able to dig the information out > from somewhere. > > I have got some useful answers now > but searching google and archives > resulted in days of frustration. (Probably > using wrong criteria or something) > > Many people here seem very > comfortable with all the port > management issues, and I am > wondering how you came by this. > > As an ultra newbie, I have found this > whole area one of the most difficult > to get an effective practical grasp of. > > Thanks > Peter
Here is a link you may find interesting http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html -Mike _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"