Add these to your profile environment. PLAN9=%%PREFIX%%/plan9; export PLAN9 PATH=$PATH:$PLAN9/bin; export PATH This port install a default plumbing file. Just cd to the ports directory and type (not as root) make install-user BUGS This port can cause some problems if you install certain ports: - www/mozilla need archivers/zip to build. If zip is not installed before you build it, this port will detect $PLAN9/bin/zip and try to use it unsuccessfully because they do not share the same options. - x11/kdebase3 build crash in a fish.cpp file if you try to build it with $PLAN9. I suggest you to unset $PLAN9 before building any other ports if you don't want to fall into these problems and reset it after. - venti/fmt* commands work only with normal files.