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Hello everyone! I have run into a strange little problem today. I have previously been using www/qutebrowser on my computer. I used it just yesterday. When I came home today and booted my system, it was magically gone. Perhaps I am just retarded and uninstalled it, so I tried installing, but...

Hi All Although Blender is mainly used as a 3D creation suite it also has probably the best video editor available on linux or unix, and the closest thing i have found to final cut pro Unfortunately the video editor isnt enabled in the blender pkg, im not sure if its a licensing issue that...

I have a poudriere repository that I use to build firefox, cmus, scilab and few other packages. Now, I have some packages that I don't longer need, and no other installed packages depend on them. sudo pkg autoremove Installed packages to be REMOVED: ORBit2-2.14.19_2 lapack-3.5.0_5...

Hello all, Just looking through and trying to install a newer package I saw in the ports section of the site and I noticed this: What it appears to be is after doing this: pkg clean -a pkg update -f I cannot seem to install the newest version of elasticsearch and it does not want to update...

Hello! This is my first time trying out FreeBSD on bare metal, as I want to use it as my main system (My second Hard Drive has Windows on it, for Games) and I do not have internet after the installation as I need to install this handy little software to get my phone to connect to my computer. I...

I read in UPDATING that the default version of php has bumped from 5.6 to 7.1. I would like to stay with the php56 version for now. I tried to put this in /etc/make.conf and it seems to have no effect on pkg either way: DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= php=5.6 But... $ sudo pkg update && pkg version -vRL=...

I installed FreeBSD on VM and I would like setup and configure OpenVPN but I have problem and I tired from it. pkg update ###/usr/local/lib/libpkg.so.4 "undefined symbol openat" I try with the following command but still not working. 1- cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg 2- make clean deinstall...

All, Over the past few years have spent a significant amount of time (seemingly endless) on port/package maintenance tasks. It seems that we should be able to: 100%: Use pkg for any/all installs and maintenance tasks (if no custom config options are required) -or- 100%: Use ports for any/all...

I'm trying to install the current latest version of JDK 8. When I searched on "https://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html", I found JDK 8 update 181. And, looking into the "Age" of the files, it was updated only 3 days ago. However, when I search from within FreeBSD using pkg search, I could...

Hi all, I have maintained my FreeBSD systems for quite some time on 'latest' and would expect a Wednesday weekly release for updated packages. Is there a documentation showing the schedule of the quarterly package release cycle? I am interested in the cut off dates for new packages to be...

Hi all, I am trying to understand how to troubleshoot an issue I have with a third party package in a jail. In short, I have two jails, emby and emby2, both setup on 11.2-RELEASE and created using iocage on zfs dataset. In the emby jail, I have the third party emby-server package installed...

I do hope this questions hasn't been asked before, but I've seen no indication that is has. Here is my dilemma: I have two packages (google-authenticator and nginx) where I literally need to change only 5 lines of code in the source before compiling. Otherwise, binary packages work very well...

Hi, /usr/local/sbin/pkg check -qsa is running for 37 hours and using up to 99% of my CPU. The command is somehow triggered by root, but not by my (rooted) hand. Following the man pkg this is a check on (all?) software aboard my FreeBSD 11.1 box. My disk is only 19G used, including 3.7G home...

I have a project source for which I want to create a binary pkg package. The projects uses autoconf so it can be compiled/installed with ./configure, make, make install. For this project, I would create a pkg package such a way I can install its files, then remove them later, like a normal...

Hello whoever is reading this. I have been stuck in the same...you know what I mean. I have a problem with VirtualBox. NO matter of the procedure that I make for install this program, will be pkg, using ports, whatever. When it finish its installation, and I try to run this program, ALWAYS I get...

Which is the best way of install something here, in your thoughts? If you want, you can explain why do you think what you think. You can like pkg You can like https://www.freshports.org/ Or simply don't have one of your preference and use both or none. Feel free of expound your thoughts and...

pkg upgrade will reinstall unlocked ports as packages, and then presumably those packages can be managed (updated) through pkg. However, after upgrading all but a couple of ports to packages, portmaster dies during portmaster -aR. I also get the impression that dependency ports aren't converted...

Hi, I am a long time Linux user trying TrueOs for the first time. As this is a new install I am using pkg a lot to get familiar applications in place. The problem is every time I run pkg it first updates the repository catalog which takes several minutes (up to 10) . This happens even though...

What's the easiest way to quickly list pkg aliases in pkg.conf?

I install from pkg and it is very slow, when I install the desktop KDE for 1GB It takes hours, very slow speed. On Linux, it more fast for 1 GB to download I have edited mirror on FreeBSD.conf Pkg0.twn.freebsd.prg (I am in Asia) so I use Taiwan for the closest mirror. Is there any something I...