pkg install

FreeBSD 14.0 I'm having a lot of trouble understanding installing and removing packages in FreeBSD Problem 1: I install a package (pkg install package_name) and several packages that are its dependencies are installed alongside it. Example 40 packages installed So I will remove the package...

FreeBSD 14.0 I removed the 2 packages below that are smplayer dependencies! And I don't want those dependencies installed because I don't need them! It turns out that I also removed vlc because I didn't want it on the system, but... the elisa program requires it, otherwise it won't work! Now...

I installed a package and after the installation process ended, I was shown some extra information about the limitations of this package in FreeBSD. In this concrete example it was the picom package writing something about no support for some audio features bause of differences between the...

I installed the strawberry-qt6-1.0.22_1 package Using the command I learned: pkg install strawberry-qt6-1.0.22_1 But it is not playing .ogg ../ext/ogg/gstoggdemux.c(5021): gst_ogg_demux_loop ()...

Hello. I'm trying to make custom FreeBSD install on VPS from installation ISO. All installation steps are available in ansible playbook, but it needs python interpreter installed. That's how I run sshd there: #!/bin/sh mkdir /tmp/etc mount_unionfs /tmp/etc /etc echo...

I’m using gnustep, and when I try to install libdispatch, I run into a conflict. When I use ‘sudo pkg install libdispatch’, it says it needs to uninstall gnustep to do so. The thing is, libdispatch is a dependency to compile and install gnustep CoreFoundation (missing from FreeBSD for some...

I'm testing out 14.0-BETA5 on my RPi 400 (arm64) and for some reason it seems a lot of packages are unavailable. Does anyone have any idea as to what could be the problem? Is there something I can do to make it work, or is the problem on the repo side? I get similar messages trying to install...

Packages download speed is ultra slow ! 00's slow ! I could actually compile from source these packages and still many of them would be installed faster. I live in Greece and pkg download speed is awful.

devel/leiningen has no maintainer. pkg install leiningen wants to install the java/openjdk8 as a dependency, but I would like to use the devel/leiningen with openjdk11. There is also a newer release for leiningen, which pkg doesn't have it. How can I instruct the pkg-install to not install...

I installed FreeBSD 13.2 on a morefine R9-6900HX, from a USB pen, so far all good, but I need to install the realtek-re-kmod package in order to recognize the network cards, I already mounted the pen every time I try to install it with: pkg add ./realtek-re-kmod-198.00_1.pkg pkg tries to...

Hi, I start with FreeBSD and I'm stuck! I installed freeBSD-12.4-stable-amd64. All repositories are up to date but i can't install gnome3. I installed gnome-desktop, gdm et xorg. For the package gnome3 the system says: "pkg No packages available to install matching 'gnome3' have been found...

( during reboot, boot messages show a "CBSD unable to determine the first IP address. Should this be the static private IP of my re0 interface? Thank you. ) I am having trouble dealing with a kwin crash, tried to update kde plasma, portmaster returned several errors, then updated by the pkg...

Micro looks great. ;) For some unknown reason pkg install micro or pkg install editors/micro, even pkg install micro-2.0.10_2 not working, - exit with no Errors with: The most recent versions of packages are already installed BUT nothing really by pkg info micro or pkg info | grep editor...

Dear FreeBSD Gurus! Please share bash script to automate installing bunch of packages without any user interaction in a process. Let me write a little bit of details what I need exactly: pkg_autoinstaller_list.txt - text file that contain name of packages that I would to install. Each name in...

Hi I noticed that pkg was downloading stuff really slower than axel on the same computer or other windows and Linux machines and even my Android phone on the same network searching the forums I saw a lot of posts about pkg being slow and always users answer was that "the problem is the...

Hi all, I recently came across the `-j` and `-r` options for pkg, and start wondering if there is any reason to prefer one over the other. Specifically, do pkg -j jid install pkg_name and pkg -r path_to_jail install pkg_name essentially achieve the same thing, or are there any subtle...

There has to be a minimal_tested_target_level or something to have sepperate versions of the package uploaded for different freebsd releases, keeping it compatible. I prefer FreeBSD 11.4 over newer because of SCO unix SVR compatibility, but a lot of BSD packages, I can't install. This is a main...

So, I have virtual machine with FreeBSD 12.1 RELEASE-p10 on ESXi 7. When I try to install pkg I get this: root@srv-freebsd:/home/user # pkg The package management tool is not yet installed on your system. Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y...

Hi folks! I've installed mysql server and client 8 version from packages. After that, I try to install cacti and see this: Conflicts with the existing packages have been found. One more solver iteration is needed to resolve them. The following 39 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked)...

Hello. I have some conflict when I want to install new package: pkg says it needs to remove some package to do the install. But I don't want to remove this package as I need it. For example, if I install openoffice: pkg install apache-openoffice Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD...