From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 5 10:38:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AECD16A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 10:38:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp109.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp109.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD6A043D54 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 10:38:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from public@aryanameri.com) Received: from unknown (HELO maral) (aryanameri@212.175.149.4 with plain) by smtp109.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Feb 2005 10:38:42 -0000 From: Aryan Ameri To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org User-Agent: KMail/1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 12:38:38 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200502051238.38800.public@aryanameri.com> Subject: no /usr/ports directory X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 10:38:43 -0000 Hi there, New to FreeBSD and this is my first message to a BSD mailing list. Hope to learn a lot from you guys. I am reading the Handbook and chapter 4 which deals with packages and ports repeatedly refers to the /usr/ports directory. The problem is that I don't have this directory on my system. I am using FreeBSD 5.3 on a x86 machine. A simple google and browing the archives of this list didn't bear much fruit. Have I missed something during the installation? Cheers -- /* Only the dead have seen the end of war -- Plato */ Aryan Ameri