Madhurya Kakati put forth on 5/26/2010 10:15 PM: > Is there a bsd ports like system in debian? I believe you're looking for the Gentoo Portage system: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml AFAIK, there is no Debian equivalent, nor any other Linux distro, that manages and builds packages from source, in the manner of BSD ports or Gentoo Portage. -- Stan