Managing ports in FreeBSD
Written on August 31, 2009 at 2:39 am, by Lupo
The aim of this article is to summarise the installation, reinstallation and deinstallation of ports (packages) in FreeBSD. The FreeBSD ports collection ir probably one of the most compelling reasons to choose FreeBSD (and you will soon see why). This tutorial continues from where we left the minimal installation in my previous post, so I am assuming you already have a working FreeBSD box.
Before we download the ports collection lets install curl, a very useful tool that will help us download the ports archive itself. We do this using the pkg_add command.
# pkg_add -r curl
As simple as that. The previous command should download the packages from the remote repo (the -r option stands for “remote”) and install them. If everything goes according to plan you should output that resembles the following:
