package management

Hello, I am trying to install a python library called pygamezero on python 3.11 using the pip tool but everytime i try installing i get the following error: $ pip install pgzero Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable Collecting pgzero Using cached...

Has anyone thought about implementing pubgrub versioning solver for FreeBSD (BSD) base system(s)? I was going to save this for my stealth project but I gift it to the BSD community. PubGrub versioning solver is a key algorithm that makes uv (written in Rust) so fast. It is used for package...

I have a maintenance-oriented package that (among other tasks) used to install a specific file, and sometimes overwrite that file with an updated version. I'm trying to find a way to hang on to that file, but not have the package claim "ownership" of it as seen in pkg list or pkg which...

Hi, I upgraded from version 14.0 p6 to 14.1 release. Currently I can still browse the internet, work with the machine, do pings to Freebsd.org. No problem with network connections or my data. But I cannot upgrade any packages anymore: root@vm1:~ # pkg upgrade Updating FreeBSD repository...

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...

Hello, the question is: Is it possible to do a full install of all packages without causing dependency issues and a massive slowdown of the system? For example, I would expect the system startup time to increase massively.

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...

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...

My current issue revolves around apache24 and gitea and a few other ports requiring postgresql12-client as a connector, which blocks the installation of postgresql14-client needed by postgresql14-server to play around with some of the newer features in my home lab, and I'd be curious about a...

I'm running FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE on VirtualBox (RAM - 5000 MiB , Processor - 1, SSD - 18 GiB) hosted by Debian Buster. Almost all of the available binary packages in FreeBSD satisfy my need. I just need to build only one package with custom options which is ffmpeg. I won't remove it's default...

I have a server running 11.3-p7 that has been upgraded over time since about 2009. When I originally built it, I chose not to use packages and I have been regretting that decision for years due to how much time it takes to handle updates. As I did not initially intend for it to be a server, I...

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...

Hi, I am looking for following version ports cmake-3.7.2 cmake-modules-3.7.2 git-2.12.1 sqlite3-3.18.0 ruby21-2.1.10_1,1 rsync-3.1.2_6 Above listed ports are not available on http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:10:amd64/ I checked all releases and quarterly folders but same version ports are not...

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...

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...

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...

I usually compile the pkg program from ports, using saved source. Hence, no binary pkg bootstrapping installation is ever needed when I use (personally) archived packages. Usually, when I decide to use the "pkg install" command to retrieve a package not yet in my personal archives, the "pkg...