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Q. I've installed OpenBSD but ports collection is missing at /usr/ports directory. How do I install ports from ftp / http site?

A. Port collection is essential for OpenBSD server.

Method # 1: Install ports from CDROM

If you have OpenBSD CDROM type the following command to copy out the contents of the ports tree to /usr/ports; you would mount the CD-ROM with ports on it on /cdrom and issue a command like follows:
# mount /cdrom
# cd /usr
# tar zxf /cdrom/ports.tar.gz


Method # 2: Install ports from FTP / HTTP mirror

Use wget and grab ports.tar.gz, enter:
# cd /usr
# wget ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/$(uname -r)/ports.tar.gz
Sample output:

--11:44:39--  ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.1/ports.tar.gz
           => `ports.tar.gz'
Resolving ftp.openbsd.org... 129.128.5.191
Connecting to ftp.openbsd.org|129.128.5.191|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/OpenBSD/4.1 ... done.
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR ports.tar.gz ... done.
Length: 11,184,931 (11M) (unauthoritative)

100%[=================================================================================================================>] 11,184,931   236.83K/s    ETA 00:00

11:45:29 (230.09 KB/s) - `ports.tar.gz' saved [11184931]

Extract ports tar.gz:
# tar -zxvf ports.tar.gz

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