The FreeBSD Ports Collection


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For information on how to use the ports tree, please look at "The Ports Collection" section of the FreeBSD handbook on your own FreeBSD machine or at the FreeBSD web site.

Also, if you would like to contribute a new port or fix an existing one, please refer to the Porting Guidelines section of the most current handbook.

Here are the one-line descriptions for each of the directories:


archivers: Archivers
astro: Astronomical ports
audio: Audio tools
benchmarks: Benchmarking tools
biology: Biology
cad: CAD tools
chinese: Chinese support
comms: Communication utilities
converters: Character code converters
databases: Databases
deskutils: Things that used to be on the desktop before computers were invented
devel: Development utilities
editors: Editors
emulators: Emulators for other operating systems
french: French support
ftp: FTP client and server utilities
games: Games
german: German support
graphics: Graphics tools and libraries
hebrew: Hebrew support
irc: Internet Relay Chat utilities
japanese: Japanese support
java: Java language support
korean: Korean support
lang: Programming languages
mail: Electronic mail utilities
math: Mathematics
mbone: MBone applications
misc: Miscellaneous utilities
net: Networking tools
news: Network news
palm: Software support for the 3Com Palm(tm) series
print: Desktop publishing
russian: Russian support
security: Security tools
shells: Shells
sysutils: System utilities
textproc: Text processing utilities (does not include desktop publishing)
vietnamese: Vietnamese support
www: Ports related to the World Wide Web
x11-clocks: X11 clocks
x11-fm: X11 file managers
x11-fonts: X11 fonts and font utilities
x11-servers: X11 servers
x11-toolkits: X11 toolkits
x11-wm: X11 window managers
x11: Ports to support the X window system