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Complete noob question: Software installation

Posted by Anonymous Coward | Posted in BSD | Posted on 01-07-2009

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I’m a Linux guy who is tring out BSD for the first time…

What is the BSD program to automatically fetch and and install software?

Is it pkg_add? Will pkg_add automatically fetch and and install software? Does it work on all BSD variants?

This is all I could find, but I wanted to make sure I am using the right tool.