Howto install ports collection?
Nagy László Zsolt
nagylzs at freemail.hu
Wed Sep 10 04:35:49 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
>
Here is my own answer:
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz
I'm not sure if this is the correct solution but I'll extract this under
/usr.
Any thoughts welcome.
Laci 1.0
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