[ Thanks to Falko
Timme for this link. ]
“Here is the guide on installing Firebird 2.5 from
FreeBSD 8.1 Ports and creating your first test database; also we
show you how to install Flamerobin GUI (administration tool) and
the PHP driver for it. This was tested on fresh FreeBSD 8.1 on a
virtual machine.“Download a compressed snapshot of the Ports Collection into
/var/db/portsnap.# portsnap fetch
“Or update it. If you are running Portsnap for the first time,
extract the snapshot into /usr/ports:# portsnap extract
“If you already have a populated /usr/ports directory and you
are just updating, run the following command instead:”