update method

Hello, this is my first post here. The Forum is very cool, but a have one question: Today i have one appliance in AWS FreeBSD running at version 11.3-Stable AMD64 and i know this version is a older version of freeBSD. But when i try update running pkg update i receive a follow error: Shared...

I have a machine behind a firewall. How do it update it, ie. to the execute these commands normally of there is an Internet connection: ?

After moving from Arch Linux to FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p7 one major difference that I found was the fact that under all Linux distros there is only one update mechanism which updates both the base and user land packages. For example under Debian/Ubuntu you need to run only sudo apt update && sudo...

Hi. This is my first post. The forum is beautiful. Which is better? Or is there another better method to update/upgrade? Is there duplication/overlap in these commands? freebsd-update fetch && freebsd-update fetch install or freebsd-update fetch && pkg update && pkg upgrade or...