Ports General

Portsnap

Portsnap is used to update the FreeBSD ports tree

This will fetch a new copy of the ports tree

portsnap fetch

This will extract the new tree to /usr/ports

portsnap extract

Finding Ports

find /usr/ports/ -name <NAME OF PORT>*

or

locate <NAME OF PORT>

Installing Ports

cd /usr/ports/<CATEGORY>/<PORT>
make install clean

Removing Ports

cd /usr/ports/<CATEGORY>/<PORT>
make deinstall

Making Changes / Reinstalling Ports

cd /usr/ports/<CATEGORY>/<PORT>
make config
make deinstall ;; make reinstall

Clean Up

make clean