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How to Update FreeBSD Ports

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Having setup your new FreeBSD machine, you'll probably need to update that beast every once in a while. Here, I'll show you the most simple way of updating ports. (note: commands are quoted and italicized, do not type in the quotes.)

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Using portsnap (snapshots)

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    If you have a GUI already installed. Please open the terminal application that you would commonly use. If a GUI is not present on your machine, then move on to the next step.
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    Once you have the Terminal open (or if you're logged into your user and have no GUI). Please type in "su -" followed by the password to the root account.
    • Only the root user can update, or install things from ports.
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    After successfully logging into the root user. If this is a new install and you have not updated ports before, type "portsnap fetch extract" and it'll fetch the latest snapshot of ports and extract it to the proper directory.
    • If this is after the first time you've updated ports, as well as to update ports in the future after doing the first update. Type "portsnap fetch update" to update ports.
    • To update the applications on the machine, it would be a good idea to install from ports either "port master" or "port-up-grade."

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SVN

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    If you have a GUI already installed. Please open the terminal application that you would commonly use. If a GUI is not present on your machine, then move on to the next step.
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    One you have the terminal open (or if you're logged into your user and have no GUI). Please type in "su -" followed by the password to the root account.
    • Only the Root user can update, or install things from the ports collection.
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    After successfully logging into the root user. You'll need to install SVN; So type in "cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion" and "make install clean"
    • If you're using pkg-ing, typing "pkg install subversion" will work too.
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    After Subversion is installed. You can type in "svn checkout https://svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports" to connect the folder with subversion, and then "svn update /usr/ports" to update the ports collection
    • You can replace "us-east" above with either "us-west", or "eu" depending on your location.

Things You'll Need

  • Root access to the machine.
  • Basic knowledge on operating the terminal.
  • Subversion (Optional)
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