My first time installing FreeBSD. After a week of pouring over the forums, handbook, etc, and several attempts (taking incremental snapshots), I finally got an error free installation in a VirtualBox VM including KDE and NFS to the Ubuntu host (Linux Mint 13 actually) :e.
I still haven't quite grokked the packages/ports RELEASE/STABLE/CURRENT stuff yet. So thought I'd finally ask a question relating to packaging.
Based on ports-mgmt/pkg, I run "pkg_add -r pkg" and get
Since my understanding is somewhat :q despite reading the handbook (probably missed something), can someone point me in the right direction - i.e. what are the high-level steps I need to take to install pkgng?
BTW:
I notice pkg-1.0.1.tbz exists in
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-current/ports-mgmt
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-stable/ports-mgmt
So I tried the stable version (pkg_add ftp:.....). Seemed to work but is this approach advisable in general?
thanks
I still haven't quite grokked the packages/ports RELEASE/STABLE/CURRENT stuff yet. So thought I'd finally ask a question relating to packaging.
Based on ports-mgmt/pkg, I run "pkg_add -r pkg" and get
Code:
Error: Unable to get [url]ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.0-release/Latest/pkg.tbz:[/url] File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
BTW:
I notice pkg-1.0.1.tbz exists in
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-current/ports-mgmt
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-stable/ports-mgmt
So I tried the stable version (pkg_add ftp:.....). Seemed to work but is this approach advisable in general?
thanks