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  From: Adam Smith <adam@internode.com.au>
  To  : James Leone <jleone@pacbell.net>
  Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 14:35:18 +0930

Re: [OT] FreeBSD Newb-blog

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 09:24:25PM -0700, James Leone said:
> 
> >>2.. Upgrade to kde3
> 
> >cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3;make install clean
> 
> These directories definitely do not exist, even after installing porteasy

That probably means you didn't install the ports.  Execute
/stand/sysinstall and install the Ports Collection from the Distributions
menu.

Then keep them up-to-date by installing cvsup

# cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui && make install

then edit an /etc/make.conf file and add options similar to the following:

SUP_UPDATE=     yes
SUP=            /usr/local/bin/cvsup
SUPFLAGS=       -g -L 2
SUPHOST=        cvsup2.au.freebsd.org
SUPFILE=        /etc/release-supfile
PORTSSUPFILE=   /etc/ports-supfile

You will find more examples for make.conf in
/usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf

Then, using the examples in /usr/share/examples/cvsup you can put a
ports-supfile in your /etc directory which will be used to update the
ports.

You can then magically update your ports by typing cd /usr/ports and
running "make update"

Then you can start installing things from the ports.  You can either then
use the ports in their bare state by going into the directory of a port and
typing  "make install", such as

cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade && make install

but once you have a program like portupgrade installed, you can use it to
manage your ports much more efficiently

portinstall <port>
portupgrade <port>



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