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USING THE PORTS COLLECTION

First, navigate your way to the Ports Collection on your machine:

A Port is basically a recipe for building thebrowser in /www, and (huzzah!) in /editors. In order to search for applications, we first need to index all the ports in the system: Use the following command to search for something:

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