From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 5 11:32:37 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 CDFFF16A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 11:32:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91.asp.att.net [63.240.76.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 741F443D45 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 11:32:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc91.asp.att.net (sccimhc91) with ESMTP id <20050205113236i9100k4hate>; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 11:32:36 +0000 Message-ID: <4204AED3.2050509@nbritton.org> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 05:32:35 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050202) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Imobach_Gonz=E1lez_Sosa?= References: <200502051238.38800.public@aryanameri.com> <200502051050.25584.imobachgs@banot.net> In-Reply-To: <200502051050.25584.imobachgs@banot.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org 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 11:32:37 -0000 Imobach González Sosa wrote: >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 >collection. You could: > >1) go into sysinstall and choose "ports" from Configure->Distributions. If you >got a FreeBSD CD, it install the ports from it. This step is optional, but >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 >didn't follow the step 1). > > Use option 2 as a method of last resort for "creating" the ports system on your computer. It's taxing on the servers and is generally the slowest way you can create the ports system, my uncompressed ports tree is 400MB (excluding ./distfiles). Also there is another method listed in Michael Lucas's Absolute BSD book, a good book for a newbie to pickup, also pickup The Complete FreeBSD (4th Ed.) by Greg 'groggy' Lehey and then when your an expert newbie (?, lol) pickup a copy of Unix Power Tools (3rd Ed.) published by O'Reilly.