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284000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Dd January 7, 1997
294000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Dt PORTS 7
304000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Os FreeBSD 2.2
314000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Sh NAME
324000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Nm ports
334000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Nd contributed applications
344000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Sh DESCRIPTION
354000f72fSDavid E. O'BrienThe
364000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Nm FreeBSD Ports Collection
374000f72fSDavid E. O'Brienoffers a simple way for users and
384000f72fSDavid E. O'Brienadministrators to install applications.
394000f72fSDavid E. O'BrienEach
404000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Ar port
414000f72fSDavid E. O'Brienlisted here contains any patches necessary to make the original
424000f72fSDavid E. O'Brienapplication source code compile and run on BSD. Installing an
434000f72fSDavid E. O'Brienapplication is as simple as downloading the port, unpacking it and typing
444000f72fSDavid E. O'Brienmake in the port directory. The Makefile automatically fetches the
454000f72fSDavid E. O'Brienapplication source code, either from a local disk or via ftp, unpacks it
464000f72fSDavid E. O'Brienon your system, applies the patches, and compiles. If all goes well,
474000f72fSDavid E. O'Briensimply type
484000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Ar make install
494000f72fSDavid E. O'Briento install the application.
504000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Pp
514000f72fSDavid E. O'BrienFor more information about using ports, see
524000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Nm The Ports Collection
534000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien(file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/ports.html --or--
544000f72fSDavid E. O'Brienhttp://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ports.html).
554000f72fSDavid E. O'BrienFor information about creating new ports, see
564000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Nm Porting applications
574000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien(file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/porting.html --or--
584000f72fSDavid E. O'Brienhttp://www.freebsd.org/handbook/porting.html).
594000f72fSDavid E. O'BrienBoth are part of the FreeBSD Handbook.
604000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Pp
614000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Sh FILES
624000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Bl -tag -width /usr/ports/xxxx -compact
634000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.It Pa /usr/ports
644000f72fSDavid E. O'BrienThe default ports directory (FreeBSD and OpenBSD).
654000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.It Pa /usr/opt
664000f72fSDavid E. O'BrienThe default ports directory (NetBSD).
674000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Sh SEE ALSO
684000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Xr make 1 ,
694000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Xr pkg_add 1 ,
704000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Xr pkg_create 1 ,
714000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Xr pkg_delete 1 ,
724000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Xr pkg_info 1 .
734000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Sh AUTHORS
744000f72fSDavid E. O'BrienThis man page has been written by David E. O'Brien.
754000f72fSDavid E. O'BrienThe ports collection is maintained by Satoshi Asami and the
764000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.\" incredible
774000f72fSDavid E. O'Brienawesome
784000f72fSDavid E. O'Brienports team.
794000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Sh HISTORY
804000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Nm The Ports Collection
814000f72fSDavid E. O'Brienappeared in
824000f72fSDavid E. O'Brien.Fx 1.0 .
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