Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 15:44:24 +0200 From: Aryan Ameri <public@aryanameri.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [solved] no /usr/ports directory Message-ID: <200502051544.25109.public@aryanameri.com> In-Reply-To: <200502051050.25584.imobachgs@banot.net> References: <200502051238.38800.public@aryanameri.com> <200502051050.25584.imobachgs@banot.net>
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On Saturday 05 February 2005 12:50, Imobach Gonz=E1lez 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). > > Change A-MIRROR-NEAR-YOU for just a mirror. > > Good luck! Thanks. Problem solved. Cheers =2D-=20 /* Only the dead have seen the end of war=20 -- Plato */ =20 Aryan Ameri
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