Installation: FreeBSD

This page describes how to install sup on FreeBSD-10, though the same instructions should apply to 9.x.

Installing dependencies

In your /etc/make.conf (or /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/<jailname>-make.conf if using poudriere), add the following lines to specify that we want to use Ruby 1.9:

RUBY_VERSION=1.9.3
RUBY_DEFAULT_VER=1.9

Then either build and install the following ports (building directly with make -C /usr/ports/<dir/port> all install clean or with portmaster or poudriere...) or install the corresponding packages:

lang/ruby19
devel/ruby-gems
devel/rubygem-rake
devel/ncurses

Installing sup

At this stage, it is best to allow gem to install sup's dependencies, as some of the versions in ports are slightly out of date. As root, run:

gem install ncursesw
gem install sup

Next step

See the New User Guide.