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| − | + | Before you can install any ports in FreeBSD you will need to install the ports collection. The ports tree is placed in /usr/ports/ and consists of the makefiles and information required to properly download and install all of the FreeBSD ports. | |
| − | + | The easiest way to install the ports tree is to use [[sysinstall]] | |
| − | + | > '''su''' | |
| − | + | (enter root password) | |
| + | > '''sysinstall''' (or '''/stand/sysinstall''' for versions < 5.2) | ||
| + | -> Select '''Configure''' | ||
| + | -> Select '''Distributions''' | ||
| + | -> Select '''ports''' | ||
| + | -> go to OK | ||
| + | -> Select installation media, (CDROM, FTP, ...) | ||
| + | -> go to Exit | ||
| + | -> Exit sysinstall (Press X) | ||
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| + | You can also go to FreeBSD.org and ftp the latest ports.tar.gz (about 200megs or so,) and uncompress it in /usr. But why do it manually when you've got sysinstall to deal with the hassle for you? | ||
| − | + | See also: [[Update the ports tree]], [[Ports, Installing]] | |
| − | + | [[Category:Common Tasks]] | |
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Latest revision as of 16:16, 30 January 2008
Before you can install any ports in FreeBSD you will need to install the ports collection. The ports tree is placed in /usr/ports/ and consists of the makefiles and information required to properly download and install all of the FreeBSD ports.
The easiest way to install the ports tree is to use sysinstall
> su (enter root password) > sysinstall (or /stand/sysinstall for versions < 5.2) -> Select Configure -> Select Distributions -> Select ports -> go to OK -> Select installation media, (CDROM, FTP, ...) -> go to Exit -> Exit sysinstall (Press X)
You can also go to FreeBSD.org and ftp the latest ports.tar.gz (about 200megs or so,) and uncompress it in /usr. But why do it manually when you've got sysinstall to deal with the hassle for you?
See also: Update the ports tree, Ports, Installing
