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Add a short blurb about the ports page in the "applications" question.

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List all three packages directories in the ensuing packages description.

Add a short (in fact, very short) section about libc.so.3.0 and wrong
package versions.
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<!DOCTYPE linuxdoc PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD linuxdoc//EN">
<!-- $Id: FAQ.sgml,v 1.42 1997/04/05 08:38:48 jkh Exp $ -->
<!-- $Id: FAQ.sgml,v 1.43 1997/04/10 10:20:46 brian Exp $ -->
<article>
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<author>Maintainer: Peter da Silva <tt><htmlurl url='mailto:pds@FreeBSD.ORG'
name='&lt;pds@FreeBSD.ORG&gt;'></tt>
Last updated: <date>$Date: 1997/04/05 08:38:48 $</date>
Last updated: <date>$Date: 1997/04/10 10:20:46 $</date>
<abstract>
This is the FAQ for FreeBSD systems version 2.X All entries are
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<sect1>
<heading>Is there an easy way to get hold of applications?</heading>
<p>
Yes. We support the concept of a ``package'', which is
<p>
Yes. Please take a look at <url
url="http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ports/" name="the ports page">
for software ported to FreeBSD. The list is growing daily,
so come back to check often. All ports here should work for
systems on either the 2.2 or 3.0 branch, and most of them
work for 2.1.x systems as well. CDROM people will have a
snapshot of this tree at the time of release in the
<tt>ports/</tt> directory on the CD.
We also support the concept of a ``package'', which is
essentially a gzipped binary distribution with a little extra
intelligence embedded in it for doing any custom installation
work required. Packages can also be installed or uninstalled
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people will have a <tt>packages/</tt> directory on their CD,
others can get the currently available packages from:
<url url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/packages"
name="FreeBSD's packages">
<descrip>
<tag>for 2.1.x-release</tag>
<url url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.1.7/"
name="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.1.7/">
<tag>for 2.2.1-release/2.2-stable</tag>
<url url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.2/"
name="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.2/">
<tag>for 3.0-current</tag>
<url url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/packages-3.0/"
name="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/packages-3.0/">
</descrip>
or your nearest mirror site.
Note that all ports may not be available as packages, and that
new packages are constantly being added. It is always a good
idea to check periodically to see which packages are available.
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details on the care and feeding of the package software, so no
explicit details will be given here.
<sect1>
<heading>Where do I find libc.so.3.0?</heading>
<p>
You are trying to run a package for 2.2/3.0 on a 2.1.x
system. Please take a look at the previous section and get
the correct port/package for your system.
<sect1>
<heading>When I run a SCO/iBCS2 application, it bombs on <tt/socksys/.</heading>