Howto install ports collection?

Nagy László Zsolt nagylzs at freemail.hu
Wed Sep 10 06:48:03 PDT 2003


>>  Hi gurus!
>>
>> I have a remote FreeBSD computer (RELEASE 4.7 stable). It is on the 
>> other side of Earth. I can access it only with ssh.
>> It is really a base system. The ports collection (/usr/ports) is 
>> entirely missing. I'm familiar with installing ports. But I have
>> no idea how to install the ports collection using only an ssh shell. 
>> Please give me a direction.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>>    Laci 1.0
>>
>>
> The easiest way (if you have root access) is to use the CVSUP system. 
> It is well described in the handbook, and the handbook is available 
> online on www.freebsd.org . If you do not have the cvsup util already 
> installed, you need to find it and compile it yourself, after you 
> fetch it from the web. Or better, get a .tgz version which is a 
> precompiled package. Search for the source of it on 
> www.freebsd.org/ports/

Thanks for all your help. I'm currently installing apache2. :-)

   Laci 1.0




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