freebsd ports

HowTo: Install Ports in Freebsd

by Vivek Gite on April 5, 2011 · 3 comments

How do I install ports in FreeBSD operating systems using the command line options?

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Linux / BSD Shell Doesn't Recognize Newly Installed Binaries

by Vivek Gite on June 16, 2009 · 0 comments

I‘ve installed few software using tar ball format under Linux or FreeBSD ports using make command. However, my system doesn’t recognize the installed command. I’ve to reboot the system or log out and log in again to use the same. How do I fix this problem?

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FreeBSD Install OpenNTPD NTP Server / Client To Synchronize The Local Clock

by Vivek Gite on June 4, 2009 · 0 comments

How do I install OpenNTPD ( a Unix system daemon implementing the Network Time Protocol) to synchronize the local clock of a FreeBSD computer system with remote NTP servers called ntp.myisp.com?

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FreeBSD Install VIM Editor Without X11 GUI

by Vivek Gite on January 16, 2009 · 4 comments

Q. I’m running FreBSD on an old PC and find that all the visual bells and whistles in FreeBSD X11 are really slowing things down. How do I install vim text editor under FreeBSD without using GUI (gvim) version? How do I build vim port without X11 GUI?

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Freebsd: Install wget Utility To Download Files From The Internet

by Vivek Gite on January 2, 2009 · 0 comments

How do I install wget the non-interactive network downloader under FreeBSD operating systems?

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FreeBSD pkg_add: warning: package php5-pcre-5.2.6_2 requires php5-5.2.8, but php5-pcre-5.2.6_2 is installed

by Vivek Gite on December 22, 2008 · 1 comment

Q. I’m trying to upgrade my PHP version from 5.2.6 to 5.2.8 using portupgrade command. But I’m getting following errors:

*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/lang/php5.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/lang/php5.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/lang/php5.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade.42275.0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=php5-pcre-5.2.6_2 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=5.2.6_2 make reinstall
—> Restoring the old version
pkg_add: warning: package ‘php5-pcre-5.2.6_2′ requires ‘php5-5.2.8′, but ‘php5-pcre-5.2.6_2′ is installed
** Fix the installation problem and try again.
[Updating the pkgdb
in /var/db/pkg ... - 62 packages found (-0 +1) . done]
** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
! lang/php5 (php5-pcre-5.2.6_2) (install error)

How do I fix this problem and upgrade php5-pcre?

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FreeBSD Obtain and Install Ports File in /usr/ports

by Vivek Gite on November 25, 2008 · 3 comments

Q. I’ve installed FreeBSD server without ports. When installing my FreeBSD system, sysinstall asked my, if I would like to install the Ports Collection? I chose not to install it. Now, how do I obtain and install the FreeBSD ports collection in /usr/ports?

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