From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 5 10:50:45 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 8E40816A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 10:50:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.banot.net (95.Red-80-36-245.pooles.rima-tde.net [80.36.245.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89F1343D4C for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 10:50:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imobachgs@banot.net) Received: from gofio (unknown [192.168.1.31]) by smtp.banot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3790C9CA02 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 10:50:41 +0000 (WET) From: Imobach =?iso-8859-1?q?Gonz=E1lez_Sosa?= To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 10:50:25 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.91 References: <200502051238.38800.public@aryanameri.com> In-Reply-To: <200502051238.38800.public@aryanameri.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502051050.25584.imobachgs@banot.net> Subject: Re: 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 10:50:45 -0000 On Saturday 05 February 2005 10:38, Aryan Ameri wrote: > 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? Ok, it happens because you didn't tell sysinstall to install the ports=20 collection. You could: 1) go into sysinstall and choose "ports" from Configure->Distributions. If = you=20 got a FreeBSD CD, it install the ports from it. This step is optional, but= =20 could save you some time. 2) cvsup -L2 -g -h A-MIRROR-NEAR-YOU /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile This second step will upgraded your ports collection (or will create it if = you=20 didn't follow the step 1). Change A-MIRROR-NEAR-YOU for just a mirror. Good luck! =2D-=20 Imobach Gonz=E1lez Sosa imobachgs en banot punto net osoh en jabber.org