Essential PKGs

[balanga]

What do you consider essential pkgs to be installed after FreeBSD has been installed (excluding xorg apps)?

The first thing I always install is Midnight Commander, along with some fuse utils for Linux and Windows file systems.

I'm interested in knowing what I'm missing out on...

 

[Crest]

tmux, mosh, sudo, vim(-console), i3, rofi, zxfer, ...

 

[ShelLuser]

Heavily depends on what kind of environment I'm working on. For me this usually boils down to shells/pdksh, security/gnupg1, security/tripwire, sysutils/screen, misc/mc, java/openjdk8 and textproc/docproj.

Optionally followed by games/nethack36-nox11 (essential for proper server administration! ), irc/irssi (I don't use IRC much these days, but when I do it's irssi) and finally mail/mutt.

 

[ralphbsz]

First installed pkg itself.

For everyday use of the server administrator: bash, emacs, sudo, python, rsync, alpine, wget, cvs, git, curl, netpbm, tiff, gnupg, nenscript, autoconf, gmake, ...

For being a server: dhcpd, bind, bsddb3, sqlite, smartmontools, apcupsd, apache24, ...

 

[rigoletto@]

In general the same you would need in Linux minus what are in base already.

For alien filesystems you may want to take a look on: sysutils/dsbmd, sysutils/dsbmc, and sysutils/dsbmc-cli.

 

[flipper_88]

For every one who is interested Alpine was originally developed at The University of Washington in the heyday of "true Unix" and time-sharing computer systems In Seattle, Wa USA.