Please take a look at Most ports should be available for the 2.2, 3.x and 4.0
branches, and many of them should work on 2.1.x systems as
well. Each time a FreeBSD release is made, a snapshot of the
ports tree at the time of release in also included in the
ports/ directory.
We also support the concept of a ``package'', essentially no
more than a gzipped binary distribution with a little extra
intelligence embedded in it for doing whatever custom installation
work is required. A package can be installed and uninstalled
again easily without having to know the gory details of which
files it includes.
Use the package installation menu in /stand/sysinstall
(under the post-configuration menu item) or invoke the
pkg_add(1) command on the specific package files you're
interested in installing. Package files can usually be identified by
their .tgz suffix and CDROM distribution people will have
a packages/All directory on their CD which contains such
files. They can also be downloaded over the net for various versions
of FreeBSD at the following locations:
or your nearest local mirror site.
Note that all ports may not be available as packages since
new ones are constantly being added. It is always a good
idea to check back periodically to see which packages are available
at the
You are trying to run a package for 2.2/3.x/4.0 on a 2.1.x system. Please take a look at the previous section and get the correct port/package for your system.
You don't have a math co-processor, right?
You will need to add the alternative math emulator to your kernel;
you do this by adding the following to your kernel config file
and it will be compiled in.
You first need to edit the /etc/sysconfig
(or It will load the You'll then need to set up /compat/ibcs2/dev to look like:
You just need socksys to go to After installing the inn package or port, an excellent place to
start is Use the Port, Luke! A pre-patched version of Apache is available
in the ports tree.
Yes. Please see If you're running a FreeBSD version that lags significantly behind
-current or -stable, you may need a ports upgrade kit from