pkg

Hi gang! Introduction (editorial section) Every once in a while we see new(er) users who get utterly confused with the whole ports collection and the package management system and as a result they're often having a hard time trying to understand how this whole thing actually works. Now, I...

Hi, I'm after a move and tried to upgrade FreeBSD binaries and some ports. But freebsd-version is 11.1-RELEASE and binaries updated while ports are much newer. I have got 65 lines from pkg version -l '<', for example perl5-5.24.1_1. And here is my proble, I cannot compile...

Hello, I am coming from Arch Linux and I am trying to find the correct pkg flag to replicate the pacman -S --asdeps package_name behavior. Context on what this command is and what am I trying to achieve from the pacman wiki: Translating from Arch Linux to FreeBSD: opphan packages in Arch are...

Hi gang! Editorial: I've been using ports-mgmt/portmaster for a long time already and I figured it could use a little bit of extra love and attention ;) Also because there is a lot which Portmaster can do, so I'm hoping that briefly showcasing some of those features might be helpful for some...

Hey everyone, I am trying to get Gitlab running on my server (FreeBSD 10.3). Gitlab installs the following package: rubygem-github-linguist-5.0.11 This is causing a conflict with qtchooser, the want to install in the same directory? After some searching on the net, it appears that qtchooser...

Hi All, I installed FreeBSD 11 on VirtualBox using an image from osboxes.org. I tried to run pkg but it seem no internet connection. I tried to configure OpenDNS on the file resolv.conf (OpenDNS solve the problem on FreeBSD 10.2) but I got the same result pkg does not work. Can any one help me...

Hello FreeBSD forum! I just installed FreeBSD for the first time and wanted to upgrade the whole system. (I'm planning on only using the pre-compiled packages, if that matters. And I have ran the # /usr/sbin/pkg command) But did I understand correctly that if I run # freebsd-update fetch #...

Firefox on my computer expresses a weird UI issue where many controls are rendered without their borders. For example, radios or checkboxes can be selected but are invisible, since they have no border. Also selecting text doesn't highlight the selected part of the text. I can select and copy the...

Setting: FreeBSD 11.0 RELEASE I have binary packages installed using pkg. Works great and fine in itself. I have installed from source some ports as the options used in the binary version was not what I needed. Works great and fine in itself. Mixing both as such works as advertised, but I'm...

Hi everyone I'm new in freeBSD world I'm on freeBSD 9.3 RELEASE I created a package of one standard freeBSD port by cd to port directory and using following command make package-recursive then I installed /usr/ports-mgmt/pkg now when i try to add package with "pkg add' , I get the...

I thought I'd do some digging on https://pkg.freebsd.org to see why I never got offered any package updates. For reference, here is my /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf. (I do not have a local copy in /usr/local/etc.) # $FreeBSD: stable/11/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf 263937 2014-03-30 15:24:17Z bdrewery $ # # To...

Hello, I am trying to install mariadb10.2 on FreeBSD 10.3, I find the port of mariadb102 is available, but the pkg seems not... I have done pkg update, and pkg search mariadb, but couldn't find the 10.2 version, should we need to wait for few more days if we want to use pkg? Thanks

Hi, I am experiencing a strange problem. For a while now I have been using poudriere to build my packages. I am running FreeBSD 11 Stable on amd64 and the poudriere jail is on the same revision as the host system. Poudriere, packaging upgrading, etc. works for the most part. But a problem...

Hello, I've a simple question. I'm not system administrator so maybe my knowledge is a bit outdated. So, I've 4 simple, cheap VPS servers (web, builder, devel (port maintaining) and backup) and it's a little complicated thing to login to every server and run pkg upgrade or freebsd-update fetch...

Hi! I have RPi with freebsd installed on it version 11. I made an image with crochet. I didn't install powerd. When I ran "pkg upgrade" and system become upgrading over 50 packages, RPi hangs and didn't respond on any commands untill I made hard reboot. It happens, when large package being...

I am looking to switch from using portmaster management to pkg/poudriere for management. I already have poudriere setup on an outside system and I am using it for some machines which I built using the poudriere setup from the beginning. I would like to begin using the poudriere/pkg setup for...

I am looking forward to install Node.js v6.10.0 on my FreeBSD 8.4 machine. $ sysctl -n kern.osrelease kern.ostype 8.4-RELEASE FreeBSD To Install Node.js using ports, it needs pkg v1.6.0 $ cd /usr/ports/www/node/ && make install clean ===> node-7.7.2 pkg(8) must be version 1.6.0 or...

Hi all, Every time I run pkg upgrade or pkg install PKG, pkg asks me to install some apparently unnecessary packages. I'm running FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p8, using mainly packages, tracking the quarterly repo, and checking out the quarterly ports tree to match (using svn). I have compiled...

I was trying to configure the mirror site for binary packages but couldn't get it as I wanted. The overseas internet connection here in Korea is very bad (about 50KB/s at best and down to 500B/s in actual download speed per connection) while the local connection is very fast (around 8MB/s per...

Working on a new server build, I've noted that php 5.6 is out of its active maintenance window. I'd like to get something of a jump on things and install www/wordpress with php 7.0 dependencies (as I don't see php71 in the 11.0-RELEASE AMD64 quarterly repo). I've tried a few contortions of how...