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To append to what your are saying this is because ports is set up for unix people to work it.

To search you use ls, cd, and find. To install you "cd <dir> && make install".

If you are installing freebsd you should already be comfortable enough to not need a pretty gui hiding these very simple details.




You could use find, but it is easier to use the built in facilities to search for ports. If you are in the ports directory you can:

make search name=name_of_port

to search for a port by name and:

make search key=key_to_search_for

to search by key. You can also use quicksearch instead of search to reduce the verbosity of the results. If you read the ports man page, you will find a bunch of other nifty things you can do with the ports system.


I tend to just search at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/




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