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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