Difference between revisions of "FreeBSD Package Management"

Latest revision as of 18:43, 28 December 2012

Installing Packages

pkg_add -r <PACKAGE_NAME>

-r installs a remote package (From the web).

Listing Installed Packages

pkg_info

This will list all installed packages, combine with grep to find packages you want.

Removing Packages

pkg_delete <PACKAGE_NAME>

Finding Packages

This is a little more difficult when compared to other package management systems like apt or yum.
I find the easiest way to get a list of packages is to search the ports tree.

find /usr/ports/ -iname "*<PACKAGE_NAME>*"

This will return all packages whos name matches <PACKAGE_NAME>.

Ports

FreeBSD has an extensive ports system which allows you to build custom packages with specific options for your system. See Ports

Reference

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/packages-using.html