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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...

I basically wanted to install https://www.freshports.org/devel/flang/ but it appears to be unavailable although it appeared once via pkg search flang? Any suggestions (other than installing from ports (I currently am only using binary packages on this system)) would be welcome. ps@myhostname...

I was getting a bunch of security check errors in my daily output. Fixed them all save one. I installed www/phpbb3 via pkg install phpbb3 and all when swimmingly. After installations I changed the directory name because I kept forgetting to capitalize the B's. Well, now I have about 3000...

Version 10.0 with package CD's Xorg, Gnome, etc I do not have i-net access so cannot access ports. CD has pkg.txz (not pkg.txz.sig) but when I try to install it says I need a 'Signature' ... So far I haven't found 'pkg.conf'. Can I install 'pkg' from my local file on CD without a signature...

Hello! I just installed FreeBSD 11.1 RELEASE on my computer but currently I am having issues installing pkg When I tried to install pkg, I have: pkg: Error fetching http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/latest/Latest/pkg.txz: Not Found I tried to use ping to check the network and it seems...

Are pkg and portmaster equivalent? Is it better to use pkg or portmaster? To me they should be equivalent, and both should maintain the same version of software installed on the system, however I noticed inconsistencies. I have been playing around with a test system (FreeBSD 11) and I've...

Hello folks, I build net-mgmt/unifi5 from time to time. Unifi is not available as a pkg but most all of the dependancies are. in the past I used to just use ports-mgmt/portmaster like this (if my notes can be trusted: portmaster --update-if-newer --packages-build /usr/ports/net-mgmt/unifi5/...

I'm trying to install a bunch of (userland) stuff using Poudriere, and I'm coming across version conflicts... For instance, I'm trying to install a media server that requires MySQL 5.6, but I want to run MySQL 5.7 for my own purposes. When I use pkg install mediaserver, it says there's a...

I originally installed ports-mgmt/pkg by doing /usr/sbin/pkg bootstrap and now I'm not sure how to upgrade it. I'm using ports-mgmt/synth to maintain my ports, but the port does not exist in my custom repo. I do not want to install it from the FreeBSD repo, as the I will run into dependency...

The problem: I installed PowerDNS and it installed PostgreSQL 9.something client. It was successful and everything worked. (I don't actually need PostgreSQL with PowerDNS because I'm using bind zone files to configure my domains.) Then, I installed PostgreSQL 10. PostgreSQL 10 worked, but it...

Hi, Couple of questions about portmaster. Given that the documentation and some tools related to the "ports" system regard programs installed from binary package repository as "ports", does that mean: 1. We can use tools like portmaster to manage everything, regardless of the way it was...

To any user of -RELEASE who has locked www/firefox in the past: in your experience, what types of dependency issue arose as the weeks or months passed? Re https://pastebin.com/biRRGHCD line 140 I imagine that it's prudent to also lock www/flashplayer. (-CURRENT in that paste, but the essence...

Hi, Today I made an upgrade of new packages, of which there were many (like all the stuff I use), but the custom configuration appears to be overwritten. Specifically, I had to manually rewrite the X display manager resources and scripts, and my GWorkspace/WindowMaker integration started to...

Hi, from the question you can guess I'm relatively new to FreeBSD.... What I wanna do is to build a package (web application from a git repository) and install it with pkg on a target system. So by reading a lot (handbook, porters handbook, web) my understanding is that I would place my...

I pkg installed R and the command is available from the command line, but I can't figure out how to start the GUI. I've done my research and there just isn't much out there about R on FreeBSD. Is the GUI there? I am using FreeBSD 11.1 and R-3.4.0_2 and KDE 4. I sorta gave up yesterday and...

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...