Insufficent privilages to install packages on freebsd

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Batmanxxx

I just installed freebsd If try pkg install update it says insufficeint privilages to install packages I even tried with root always the insufficeint privilages to install packages I cant install or update
 
Did you recently upgrade?

Are you increasing privilege with su or similar from a normal user or are you logged in as root?

What's the output of these commands:
$ freebsd-version -kru
$ mount
$ ls -ld /var/db/pkg
 
I think the best thing is to describe exactly what you did. Did you type the words pkg install update?
If I do that I get a message that no pkg available matching update.
Did you try to install one package, like pkg install firefox?

Did you try sudo or doas, like sudo install firefox?
When you say I even tried as root, did you do su, then put in root's password?

The more specific you can be, the easier it will be to answer your questions. When you're first starting out, it might be hard to figure out what information to give. Beastie gave some suggestions.
So, if you can, take us through the steps you used, and the packages you tried to install. As I said, doing pkg install update would give an error as there's no package called update.

It might also help if you told us the result of typing
Code: 
whoami
at the prompt.
 
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