freebsd notes – compiling and installing using ports

# compiling and installing using ports
ex.

whereis package
 
cd /usr/ports/package
 
make

# installing bash

cd /usr/ports/shells/bash
 
sudo make
 
sudo make install

# installing screen

cd /usr/ports/sysutils/screen
 
sudo make

gentoo toolchain notes

A few critical packages in gentoo were released from ~ to stable recently, and through the upgrade I expericend a couple bumps.

After the upgraded packages were installed in order for things to compile after … Read the rest