FreeBSD comes with excellent documentation. This includes complete manual pages that document everything from syscalls to command line utilities and a handbook that covers basic system administration tasks.
Binary packages for FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE are mirrored on scratch. In order to install packages, the environment variable PACKAGEROOT needs to be set. This should be set by default on all supported FreeBSD images. To check if this is set, simple echo the variable:
node0 ~]$ echo $PACKAGEROOT http://scratch [jjh@node0 ~]$
You can now use the pkg_add command to install packages. Using the '-r' option instructs pkg_add to fetch the package from the remote host defined by the PACKAGEROOT variable. This command needs to be run as root, so we use the sudo command.
[jjh@node0 ~]$ sudo pkg_add -r tmux Fetching http://scratch/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.3-release/Latest/tmux.tbz... Done. [jjh@node0 ~]$
To view the list of available packages, you can go to: