A FreeBSD EMBOSS package has been created by Johann Visagie of Electric Genetics. This will be distributed on the installation CD's and through the normal distribution channels from FreeBSD version 4.2 onwards.
For the FreeBSD user with an up-to-date ports tree, installing EMBOSS
reduces to two simple commands (as root):
# cd /usr/ports/biology/emboss # make install
The FreeBSD specific parts of the port are that emboss.default is included with the other configuration files under /usr/local/etc as emboss.default.sample, and the EMBOSS documentation is installed in /usr/local/share/doc/EMBOSS instead of the default location. For further information on installation under FreeBSD you are referred to the Resources chapter.