rpm equivalent to 'pkg_add -r'?

Marc G. Fournier scrappy at hub.org
Mon Jan 16 21:46:41 PST 2006


On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote:

> Hello,
>
>> baring this, is there a better tool to use then rpm?
> I am a newbie in freebsd with ambitions to become a master :) and up
> to now I have installed tons of software using freebsd ports
> collection and freebsd packages and I found them better than rpm.
> Anyway, FreeBSD can run rpm as well (if rpm is installed of course :)
> ).
>
> On 1/17/06, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy at hub.org> wrote:
>>
>> As the subject asks, is there an equivalent?  I'm trying to install
>> linux apache2 on a FreeBSD box, and would like have rpm do as much as
>> possible as far as getting the dependencies and downloading them ...
> Well, when I installed my FreeBSD on my laptop, I was questioned
> whether I would like to run a Web Server and I answered yes, so I had
> apache2 installed.
>
> You can compile and install httpd from ports collection with the
> following command (as root):
> cd /usr/ports/apache20
> make install clean
>
> Or you can install from a prebuilt binary package with the command
> pkg_add -r apache2.

You missed part of the question, but thanks for answering ... 
specifically, I'm tryin to install a linux apache2 binary, with all of the 
linux dependencies that go along with it :)

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