--- format: rst toc: no ... ======================== FreeBSD Packages ======================== These are the packages I typically install for a workstation; this is after selecting an "X windows kernel developer" base system with ``sshd``, linux binary support, and NTP configured:: bash vim unzip bzip2 emacs mplayer pork xpdf ctorrent teTeX ipython-py25 nginx firefox fluxbox git subversion alpine screen python vlc xzgc lyx wget curl e2fsprogs gtkchtheme unison unrar ImageMagick gitk pv htop iftop lsof ngrep The following are large and/or "optional":: xfce apache py25-matplotlib py25-scipy py-numpy gimp mit-scheme eclipse pidgin wireshark The following are added by download:: java ("Diablo Latte" jdk from FreeBSD Foundation) Bulk Installation ----------------- ``pkg_add`` will fail with a ``getcwd`` error if you try to install many packages with the same command. Instead, once you have ``bash`` installed, you want to do something like:: $ for i in `echo vim screen python blah blah blah`; do pkg_add -r $i; done Note that with many packages it's almost impossible to avoid installing X windows; I think there's a flag for this somewhere.