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Date:      Tue, 21 May 1996 14:37:05 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jrclark@felix.iupui.edu (John Clark)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Ports Collection -- up-to-date
Message-ID:  <199605210507.OAA25435@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960520203115.002f4f78@felix.iupui.edu> from "John Clark" at May 20, 96 08:26:43 pm

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John Clark stands accused of saying:
> 
> Can someone fill me in on how to use the ports collection?

I actually think the handbook does a good job of the whole thing.

Get the _port_directory_.  In the case of apache, try this :

# cd /usr/ports
# mkdir www
# mkdir distfiles
# cd www
# ncftp -c ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/www/apache.tar |tar xvf -
# cd apache
# make install

> 		--John

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