Ports is one of the correct approach to install softwares on FreeBSD like RPM of RedHat-based, APT of Debian-based and Portage of Gentoo. Anyway, FreeBSD is not as easy as others because you may install FreeBSD as small as possible. In that case, there is no something called Ports Tree. This is a way to get the fresh and the most up-to-date ports tree.

Simply run below command.

portsnap fetch

Tags: freebsd, ports tree, portsnap