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<title>Portsnap Method</title>
<para><application>Portsnap</application> is an alternative system for
distributing the Ports Collection. It was first included in
&os;&nbsp;6.0. On older systems, you can install it from <filename
role="package">ports-mgmt/portsnap</filename> package:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r portsnap</userinput></screen>
<para>Please refer to <link linkend="updating-upgrading-portsnap">Using Portsnap</link>
distributing the Ports Collection.
Please refer to <link linkend="updating-upgrading-portsnap">Using Portsnap</link>
for a detailed description of all <application>Portsnap</application>
features.</para>
<step>
<para>Since &os;&nbsp;6.1-RELEASE and with recent versions
of the <application>Portsnap</application> port or package, you
can safely skip this step. The <filename
class="directory">/usr/ports</filename> will be created
automatically at first use of the &man.portsnap.8; command.
With previous versions of
<application>Portsnap</application>, you will have to
create an empty directory <filename
class="directory">/usr/ports</filename> if it does not
exists:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>mkdir /usr/ports</userinput></screen>
</step>
<step>
<para>Download a compressed snapshot of the Ports Collection into
<filename class="directory">/var/db/portsnap</filename>. You can