Disapointing problem with freebsd 14.3

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anglaro

Hey guys I downloaded FreeBSD 14.3 iso, installed it in virtualbox with fx86 vmware graphis svga as my vm needed... I tried installing kde plasma6 by `pkg install plasma6-plasma`.. It was not found, I tried kde5 not found, I changed my repo from quarterly to latest, did `pkg update -f` nothing still no kde plasma 6 only metapackages like wallpapers audio mixers etc... Then I tried `pkg install xfce4` AGAIN not found, I did `pkg install xfce lightdm` It downloaded and installed fine, i did sysrc DBUS_ENABLE=YES, I followed the great tutorial by TECHMIMIC
How to install XFCE on FREEBSD
But as soon As i tried loging in lightdm would say failed to start session
Then I tried doing it manually and typed "pkg install xfce4-session xfdesktop xfwm4 xfce4-panel xfce4-settings" but I got no packages xfdesktop xfwm4... Are you kidding me that xfce4 metapackage is also broken? Cause if the install was complete, I could have logged in to xfce without a problem... AGAIN I followed the tutorial carrefully... Even worse?
I got cannot open /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: No such file or directory

Even tho twm and raw xorg worked and other tools where installed fine

So i gave up....
NOTE that the last time I never encountered this problems on an older vm of mine a year ago
 
What's the explanation for "not found" while it exists? Can you dowload it manually with fetch? Or put the pkg files in /var/cache/pkg some other way...
 
MG said:
What's the explanation for "not found" while it exists? Can you dowload it manually with fetch? Or put the pkg files in /var/cache/pkg some other way...
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what do you mean, they dont exist and it either gave me split packages or incomplete installations like xfce and the full metapackages where nowhere to be found...
 
anglaro said:
what do you mean, they dont exist and it either gave me split packages or incomplete installations like xfce and the full metapackages where nowhere to be found...
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Never seen pkg install ending with "not found" only.

Code: 
pkg install lkjfsalf
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'lkjfsalf' have been found in the repositories

The same happens with plasma6-plasma. It doesn't exist? Pkg search says nothing. Maybe install anything else that starts with plasma6-plasma-
 
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