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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:14:58 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        garey mills <garey@luznet.es>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to get the ports ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960227131249.260I-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199602270956.KAA02722@rigel.luznet.es>

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On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, garey mills wrote:

> 	I just installed FreeBSD 2.0 over the network (sort of,
> the first thing I did was to download the distribution from a 
> mirror site, and then install over the network from the distribution
> I had downloaded). The thing is that I don't have a ports directory,
> and I can't see from the documentation how to get the ports.

It's in the handbook.  All you have to do is download the directory of 
the port you want (on ftp.freebsd.org you can do `get <directory>.tar.gz' 
and get it as a tarball).  Expand on your machine, and type "make all 
install" and enjoy.  

It will pull the source file automatically.  If it has trouble, mkdir 
/usr/ports/distfiles and put the file in question in there.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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