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<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/ports/ports.inc,v 1.68 2005/10/18 03:45:12 linimon Exp $ -->
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<p>The FreeBSD Ports and Packages Collection offers a simple way for
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users and administrators to install applications. The ports
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collection has been <a
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href="growth/status.png">growing at a
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tremendous rate</a>.
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</p>
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<p>The Ports Collection supports the latest release on the
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FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE branches. Older releases are not
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supported and may or may not work correctly with an up-to-date ports
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collection. Over time, changes to the ports collection may rely on
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features that are not present in older releases. Wherever convenient,
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we try not to gratuitously break support for recent releases, but it
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is sometimes unavoidable. When this occurs, patches contributed by
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the user community to maintain support for older releases will usually
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be committed.
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</p>
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<p>Each ``port'' listed here
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contains any patches necessary to make the original application source
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code compile and run on FreeBSD. Installing an application is as
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simple as downloading the port, unpacking it and typing
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<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make"><tt>make</tt></a>
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in the port directory. However, the most convenient (and common) method
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is to download the framework for the entire list of ports by
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installing the <a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz">
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entire ports hierarchy</a> at FreeBSD installation time,
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and then have thousands of applications right at your
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fingertips.
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</p>
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<p>
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Each port's <tt>Makefile</tt> automatically fetches the
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application source code, either from a local disk, CDROM or via
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<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ftp"><tt>ftp</tt></a>,
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unpacks it on your system, applies the patches, and compiles. If
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all went well, a simple <tt>make install</tt> will install the
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application and register it with the package system.</p>
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<p>For most ports, a precompiled <tt>package</tt> also exists, saving
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the user the work of having to compile anything at all. Each port
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contains a link to its corresponding package and you may either simply
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download that file and then run the
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<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_add"><tt>pkg_add</tt></a>
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command
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on it or you can simply grab the link location and hand it straight
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to <tt>pkg_add</tt> since it's capable of accepting FTP URLs as
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well as filenames.</p>
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<p>For more information, see <a
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href="../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html">Installing Applications: Packages and Ports</a>, a
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section of the <a href="../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html">FreeBSD Handbook</a>. For
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information about creating new ports, see the <a
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href="../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html">Porter's Handbook</a>.</p>
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<hr>
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<h3>Keeping up-to-date</h3>
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<p>
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The ports listed on these web pages are continually being updated.
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It is strongly recommended that you refresh the entire collection
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together, as many ports depend on other parts of the tree, even
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where that might seem counterintuitive (e.g. <tt>japanese/</tt>.)
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</p>
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<p>For more information about new, changed or removed ports/packages,
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or if you wish to search for a specific application to see if it's
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available as a port/package, you may browse the
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/ports.cgi">FreeBSD Ports Changes</a>
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on this site; alternatively, you may wish to visit
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<a href="http://www.FreshPorts.org">FreshPorts.org</a>
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and either browse the site or subscribe to the lists hosted there.</p>
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<FORM METHOD="GET" ACTION="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/ports.cgi">
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Search for:
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<INPUT NAME="query" VALUE="">
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<SELECT NAME="stype">
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<OPTION VALUE="all">All</OPTION>
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<OPTION VALUE="name">Package Name</OPTION>
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<OPTION VALUE="text">Description</OPTION>
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<OPTION VALUE="pkgdescr">Long description</OPTION>
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<OPTION VALUE="maintainer">Maintainer</OPTION>
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<OPTION VALUE="requires">Requires</OPTION>
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</SELECT>
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<INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Submit">
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</FORM>
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