Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 10:50:25 +0000 From: Imobach =?iso-8859-1?q?Gonz=E1lez_Sosa?= <imobachgs@banot.net> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no /usr/ports directory Message-ID: <200502051050.25584.imobachgs@banot.net> In-Reply-To: <200502051238.38800.public@aryanameri.com> References: <200502051238.38800.public@aryanameri.com>
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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
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