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How to use Portsnap

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

This tutorial is to show you how to use Portsnap to handle the FreeBSD ports.

  • Installation

If you are running a previous version of FreeBSD, you will have to install portsnap:

   
pkg_add -r portsnapportsnap fetch extract

Once this is done the newest version of ports is installed.
To use portsnap to keep your ports up to date follow below:

   
portsnap fetch update

Now your ports tree is current.


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