EMBOSS is available for download from the primary site at Open-Bio by anonymous ftp. ftp://emboss.open-bio.org/pub/EMBOSS/ This directory contains the EMBOSS package and several associated packages (collectively known as EMBASSY) that are distributed with EMBOSS. Download these to a suitable location. Documentation is available on the WWW at the EMBOSS web site. http://emboss.sf.net/
FreeBSD distributions from 4.2 onwards now include EMBOSS as an optional package maintained by Johann Visagie. johann@egenetics.com Please see section 2.6 for more information on installation on FreeBSD.