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portinstall - Installing packages from FreeBSD’s ports system

New in version 1.3.

Synopsis

Manage packages for FreeBSD using ‘portinstall’.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
name
 yes
    name of package to install/remove
    state
    		 no present
    • present
    • absent
    state of the package
    use_packages
    		 no True
    • yes
    • no
    use packages instead of ports whenever available

    Examples

    # Install package foo
- portinstall: name=foo state=present

# Install package security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd
- portinstall: name=security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd state=present

# Remove packages foo and bar
- portinstall: name=foo,bar state=absent

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