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Adding software in FreeBSD

The easiest way is to add a binary package with:

% pkg_add <package>

Packages in FreeBSD are .tbz files with some special meta-files (or files with meta information) inside it.
However you will use pkg_add in this fashion most likely:

% pkg_add -r <package>

This connects to the repository matching your release, downloads the package (and all its dependencies) and installs the package.

Another example of how easy FreeBSD can be ;)

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