From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 6 16:45:11 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 A8AAD16A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 16:45:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp110.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp110.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F21943D48 for ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 16:45:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from public@aryanameri.com) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.93?) (aryanameri@212.175.149.4 with plain) by smtp110.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Feb 2005 16:45:11 -0000 From: Aryan Ameri To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 15:46:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <200502051238.38800.public@aryanameri.com> <200502051050.25584.imobachgs@banot.net> <4204AED3.2050509@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <4204AED3.2050509@nbritton.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502051546.35580.public@aryanameri.com> 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: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 16:45:11 -0000 On Saturday 05 February 2005 13:32, Nikolas Britton wrote: > 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). > > 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. > Yes, Thanks for the advise. I am not nearly a Unix newbie, I have been=20 using Linux and Solaris and OS X for a couple of years now. I am=20 reading the handbook now and have also ordered The Complete FreeBSD=20 (4th edition). Will certainly look into the other books that you=20 mentioned. Cheers > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" =2D-=20 /* Only the dead have seen the end of war=20 -- Plato */ =20 Aryan Ameri