Installing/Upgrading Ports
Wesley Shields
wxs at atarininja.org
Wed Nov 15 06:21:19 PST 2006
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:59:38PM +0000, Suhail Choudhury wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why trying to install ports via "sysinstall -> customise -> ports",
> whichever location I try, I get the following message:
>
> Warning: Can't find the `6.1-RELEASE-p10' distribution on this ? x ?
> ? ? ? FTP server. You may need to visit a different server
> for ? x ?
> ? ? ? the release you are trying to fetch or go to the
> Options ? x ?
> ? ? ? menu and to set the release name to explicitly match
> what's ? x ?
> ? ? ? available on ftp1.freebsd.org (or set to "any").
> ? x ?
> ? ? ?
> ? x ?
> ? ? ? Would you like to select another FTP server?
>
> How can I install the ports directory on 6.1-RELEASE-p10?
> --
>
> Regards,
> Suhail.
By using cvsup (use pkg_add(1) to install it), or portsnap which is in
the base system. The entire process is well documented in the handbook.
-- WXS
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