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[NMLUG] bsd ports
Thanks for the clarification Mike. The art of updating had scared me away
from bsd when I first ventured into *nix. I think I'll break out one of my
machines that is holding the laundry room door open and install one of the
bsd's and play around.
Tim
--- Mike Garfias <mike@garfias.org> wrote:
> Tim -
>
> The ports system downloads and compiles, where apt-get (on a deb box)
> downloads a binary package.
>
> Its more like using apt-get source to get the src and building it locally.
>
> Tim Emerick spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> > I was reading an article on linuxfoo.org(1) regarding how to use BSD
> Ports.
> > It sounded good and piqued my interest in bsd again but I need a frame of
> > reference. I'm quite comfortable with Debian's apt-get. Is the bsd
> ports
> > similar in nature to apt-get?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > (1) http://www.linuxfoo.org/portal.php?article=3
> >
> >
> >
> >
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