From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 6:10:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5199A37B684 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 06:10:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (hutch-178.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.78]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id IAA03708; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 08:10:19 -0600 (CST) From: Josh Paetzel To: Jeff , Subject: Re: Help with Ports Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 08:05:07 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01020108080200.01820@mark9.vladsempire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, Jeff wrote: > I am a newbie and I am trying to learn how to install software on my "box" > > I am following the FreeBSD manual with respect to ports and getting nowhere. > I can find no directory called ports... am I doing something wrong? > > > Jeffrey > Did you install the ports collection when you installed FreeBSD? I don't think that you did. To install the ports collection now, login as root and do # /stand/sysinstall From sysinstall go to Configure and then go to Packages. At the bottom of that list you can select ports. This will install the ports tree onto your system. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message