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Installing from a pre-built package is faster than [[Installing_ports]] but the trade-off is that you don't get to configure the package the way that you would like to: you must take the package as the person who made the package compiled it.  
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Installing from a pre-built package is faster than [[Ports, Installing|installing ports]] but the trade-off is that you don't get to configure the package the way that you would like to: you must take the package as the person who made the package compiled it.  
  
 
It's a fairly straightfoward affair, you just need to use the [[pkg_add]] command, and if you don't have the .tbz package already on your system (which you likely won't,) use the -r switch to get the package remotely:
 
It's a fairly straightfoward affair, you just need to use the [[pkg_add]] command, and if you don't have the .tbz package already on your system (which you likely won't,) use the -r switch to get the package remotely:

Revision as of 10:56, 12 June 2005

Installing from a pre-built package is faster than installing ports but the trade-off is that you don't get to configure the package the way that you would like to: you must take the package as the person who made the package compiled it.

It's a fairly straightfoward affair, you just need to use the pkg_add command, and if you don't have the .tbz package already on your system (which you likely won't,) use the -r switch to get the package remotely:

%pwd
/usr/home/dave
%su -m
Password:
%pwd
/usr/home/dave
%pkg_add -r xmotd
Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest/xmotd.tbz... Done.
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You can create a script to install common packages so that you get them all in one go, if you like.

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