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Prefer linking to the handbook instead of maintaining instructions in

Browse source 
two different places. In addition the linked instructions are out of
dated.

Don't give bad advice of downloading a single port at a time. This
rarely works and is unsupported.

Approved by:	brd
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Eitan Adler 2012-08-31 23:18:28 +00:00
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<P>Each ``port'' listed here
contains any patches necessary to make the original application source
code compile and run on FreeBSD. Installing an application is as
simple as downloading the port, unpacking it and typing
simple as typing
<A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make"><TT>make</TT></A>
in the port directory. However, the most convenient (and common) method
is to download the framework for the entire list of ports by installing the
in the port directory. If you
download the framework for the entire list of ports by installing the
<!--<A HREF="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz">-->
<A HREF="installing.html">
entire ports hierarchy</A> at FreeBSD installation time, and then have
<A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html#PORTS-TREE">
ports hierarchy</A>, you can have
thousands of applications right at your fingertips.
</P>