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with command pkg install package_name all required packages are downloading one after another. Is there any we can download multiple packages at a time ? Thanks Raja Genupula

After encountered a bunch of not working pkg-s and other constant problems with them I became curios about how unrightfully forgotten BPI works? Can someone summarize the mechanics? What can be made to create something like BPI with current ports\pkg system?

question 1: If I installed wget from the pkg pkg install wget and then decided to installing again from port cd /usr/ports/ftp/wget make install clean then what would happened??? Will the port installation overwrite the pkg installation? Or duplicated wget installation? question 2: If I...

As some may know, I really hate having to deal with updates when I have other stuff to take care of. It's especially frustrating since I'm pretty much isolated from threats from the net, and I have decent backups to recover from if need be. Thanks to this article...

I would like to share an article about FreeBSD pkg(8) package manager. Less Known pkg(8) Features https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/01/17/less-known-pkg8-features/ #freebsd #pkg #beadm #update #upgrade #sqlite

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...