From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 10 04:35:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B44D16A4BF for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 04:35:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.enternet.hu (smtp.enternet.hu [62.112.192.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5855443FE9 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 04:35:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nagylzs@freemail.hu) Received: from freemail.hu (3e44a523.adsl.enternet.hu [62.68.165.35]) by smtp.enternet.hu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8ABZeAV053418 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:35:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nagylzs@freemail.hu) Message-ID: <3F5F0C79.6000102@freemail.hu> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:35:21 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3_Zsolt?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: hu, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD References: <3F5F06F4.3070108@freemail.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Howto install ports collection? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:35:49 -0000 > Hi gurus! > > I have a remote FreeBSD computer (RELEASE 4.7 stable). It is on the > other side of Earth. I can access it only with ssh. > It is really a base system. The ports collection (/usr/ports) is > entirely missing. I'm familiar with installing ports. But I have > no idea how to install the ports collection using only an ssh shell. > Please give me a direction. > > Thanks in advance, > > Laci 1.0 > Here is my own answer: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz I'm not sure if this is the correct solution but I'll extract this under /usr. Any thoughts welcome. Laci 1.0