"Christopher W. Aiken" wrote: > > In FreeBSD there exists a "ports" tree with hundreds of > software titles that have been "ported" to FreeBSD. One only > has to connect to Internet and do a "make; make install; make clean" > for FreeBSD to go to the proper FTP site(s) to download the > software and install it. The software that is downloaded is > saved in a special "distfiles" directory so that if you need > to re-install the Internet connection is not needed (i.e you > already have the pieces that are needed to build the package).
heheh. the "ports" is what drove me away from freebsd. i remember one time a couple months ago working for over 2 hours to get minicom installed because the sites the ports were pointing to were broken/outdated. eventually i got it installed though.. spent another hour and a half tryin to get ppp workin and gave up and went back to debian.(this was all on freebsd4-RELEASE) > I'm a complete Debian newbee, having Debian installed a whole > three days now. I would assume that the "apt-get" command > does the similar software installs as the FreeBSD mentioned > above? Does "apt-get" also save the downloaded software? > If so where would I look for it to save to a floppy or zip? apt-get does store it's downloaded files in /var/cache/apt/archives you can 'clear' the cache if you want by running apt-get clean. you can also specify another location to download to, you can also tell it to download *only* and not install(see manpage for apt-get), one thing apt still can't do(although i still see people reference it sometimes i never got it workin) is the 'search' function to search thru things, i keep seeing from time-to-time people say 'apt-get search <something>' but none of my machines with apt can search :( (invalid option) nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
