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Making ports a bit more like a package manager

If you don’t know what the ports system is, you must be living under a rock. It is the “package management” facility of FreeBSD, and is basically a sophisticated way to compile things from source and to uninstall them, too. It is not the most intuitive of systems for someone who has never seen it [...]

Filed in BSD, under , , on June 11, 2008
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Adventure in BSD-land.

I decided on what to do with my old and soon-to-be replaced laptop! I installed FreeBSD on it! I haven’t really looked at it in depth, but I found enough to make me completely and utterly confused.
One was the ports system. I was expecting package manager-like functionality where I would just type port install opera [...]

Filed in BSD, under , on June 10, 2008
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