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Old 01-25-2009
Installing ports upon FreeBSD install

I use DesktopBSD (FreeBSD + KDE) and regularly install this on our machines. Currently I go to the package manager to install the ports, but what shell command can I enter instead right after BSD install to install the ports?

Thanks in advance
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Old 01-27-2009
There's an excellent article at the FreeBSD's handbook.
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Old 01-27-2009
Excellent. And from this article I understand that the objective is called "obtaining the Ports Collection".
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Old 01-30-2009
cvsup or portsnap to grab the latest ports tree, then its just a matter of "make install"
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