When I try to install Gnome on a fresh installation of FreeBSD 14.2 using "pkg install gnome" I get "No packages available to install 'gnome' have been found in the repositories."
This worked last week or maybe two weeks ago. What has changed?
Ah, there's issues on the other end of the wire. Basically, the issues are with the remote repos, rather than anything on your end. Earlier this year,
pkg(8) got a version bump (from 1.21.x to 2.0.x), and things haven't been the same. There's lots of threads on these Forums where users are complaining of exact same issues that you're having. A good example is this thead:
Thread pkg-2-0-0-problems.96540. Sometimes a command works as specified by the manpage, and sometimes there's nothing.
It would help to know how to configure stuff on your end, and to communicate those details when asking for help. For example, are you querying
-quarterly or
-latest package repos? what's the output of running
uname -a? That kind of info is helpful when troubleshooting.
Sometimes having a precise timestamp associated with the error is also helpful.
I avoid the whole mess by sticking with ports from get-go. Yeah, there's the initial investment of time, waiting for things to compile, but when that is over, I have a rock-solid setup with details that I like.
