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This is the FreeBSD Ports Collection. For an easy to use
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WEB-based interface to it, please see:
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http://www.freebsd.org/ports
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For general information on the ports collection, please see the
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FreeBSD Handbook which is available from:
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file://localhost/usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html
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(if you installed the doc distribution on your machine)
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Or:
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http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
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for the latest official version from FreeBSD-current.
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The section "The Ports Collection" will tell you how to use the
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ports and packages and the "Porting Applications" section
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describes how one can contribute to the ports collection.
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If you would like to search for a given port, you can do so easily
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by saying:
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make search key="<keyword>"
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Which will generate a list of all ports matching <keyword>.
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NOTE: This tree can GROW significantly in size during normal usage!
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The distribution tar files can and do accumulate in /usr/ports/distfiles,
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and the individual ports will also use up lots of space in their work
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subdirectories unless you remember to "make clean" after you're done
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building a given port. /usr/ports/distfiles can also be periodically
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cleaned without ill-effect, though if you don't have the original
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distribution tarball(s) for something on CDROM then you will need to pull
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it all over your network connection again if you ever try to build the
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associated port.
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