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4.5. What to do when a port does not work.
Oh. You can do one of four (4) things :
- Fix it yourself. Technical details on how ports work can be found in
Porting applications.
- Gripe. This is done by e-mail *ONLY*! Send such e-mail to the FreeBSD ports mailing list
<[email protected]>
and please include the name/version of the port, where you got both the port
source & distfile(s) from, and what the text of the error was.
- Forget it. This is the easiest for most - very few of the programs in
ports can be classified as `essential'!
- Grab the pre-compiled package from a ftp server. The ``master'' package
collection is on FreeBSD's FTP server in the packages directory, though check your local mirror first, please!
These are more likely to work (on the whole) than trying to compile from
source and a lot faster besides! Use the
pkg_add(1)
program to install a package file on your system.
FreeBSD Handbook
: Installing Applications: The Ports collection
: What to do when a port does not work.
Previous: The pkg directory
Next: Some Questions and Answers
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Updated March 2, 1999