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Old 06-10-2009
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freebsd and openbsd use the ports system.
you can either use
Code:
pkg_add -r pkgname
to install the binary package of the software. the -r switch pulls in all dependencies. or you can build from source.
Code:
cd /usr/ports/whatever/port
make install clean
netbsd uses pkg-src. i know nothing about pkg-src.
now theres pcbsd and desktopbsd. pcbsd uses pbi for software. BUT, being as that it is essentially freebsd, you can still use the ports system... which i recommend anyways.
i dont know anything about desktopbsd.