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Install pkg for FreeBSD 10
I'm getting the following error while trying to install pkg on FreeBSD 10.4-
Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:10:amd64/latest, please wait...
pkg: Error fetching http://pkg....
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rsnapshot.conf - reducing verbose parameter not having the desired effect?
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Is there some configuration for rsnapshot (see versions below) that would allow me to restrict output to the shell commands, errors and start/finish notifications generated by rsnapshot itself, ...
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How can I use cloud-init NoCloud with OPNsense 21?
I'm new to OPNSense (also to FreeBSD in general) and I'm interested to use cloud-init to configure at least LAN (vtnet0) with static ip address, root password and eventually running custom scripts (or ...
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Change ports mirror in FreeBSD
The initial portsnap fetch command is talking forever. I'm getting speeds of 3427 Bps. Bps. So 3.4 KBps. Where's the config to change the mirror.
Please note I'm not talking about the actual building ...
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FreeBSD packages on Linux distributions? Request for advices
When evaluating operating system for our next server, we have the following needs:
An OS with a stable version of Python3 so that machine codes compiled from C/C++/etc. sources from our pip packages ...
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FreeBSD ports: want to recompile everything, a few packages fail because "uninstall error" / "already installed"
Only used binary packages via pkg install for a long time. Then had to compile one package from source, since additional options had to be activated. Since that went so well, I wanted to switch ...
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FreeBSD: How do I install port which doesn't show in searches?
I'd like to install version 6 of unifi network controller in a jail on my FreeNAS server. I can see that a net-mgmt/unifi6 port exists in bugs.freebsd.org: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug....
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What is the default ports tree in FreeBSD 12.1? Easiest way to change it?
Starting with a fresh install of FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE, when I run
# portsnap fetch
# portsnap extract
does it extract the release branch, quarterly branch, HEAD or some other branch? Is there a ...
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Using FreeBSD Ports & Packages, Installing Tomcat on FreeBSD 12 installs Java 8 rather than my already-installed Java 12
On FreeBSD 12, I already installed Java 12 successfully using:
sudo pkg install openjdk12
And I edited etc/fstab as directed by the text emitted by that installer.
Then I set the PATH to include ...
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Installing Java on FreeBSD: `sudo pkg install openjdk11-11.0.4+11.1` fails to find package despite being listed in the "FreeBSD Ports Search" page
On the FreeBSD Ports Search page, I see results listing an item openjdk11-11.0.4+11.1.
When I try to install that:
$ sudo pkg install openjdk11-11.0.4+11.1
…I get error saying the package could not ...
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Install only a portion of the Ports tree in FreeBSD
I know how to install and update the entire Ports tree in FreeBSD.
portsnap fetch extract
portsnap update
This brings down all the meta-data (and source code?) for some 30,000 apps. This bloats my ...
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On FreeBSD can I download a port on a separate device
I have an old PC with FreeBSD 8.4 on it. I would like to install software from the ports collection but the computer doesn’t have the hardware necessary to access the internet. Is there a way to ...
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Download just one port from the Ports Collection of FreeBSD
On a fresh FreeBSD 11.2 machine, my /usr/ports folder is empty.
Running:
portsnap fetch extract
…as discussed in the Handbook results in filling my /usr/ports with a gig of content.
If I only ...
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How to modifying & building Freebsd port (e2fsprogs)
I'm trying to build /usr/ports/sysutils/e2fsprogs/ on FreeBSD. For that I'm following below steps:
cd $port go to port directory: /user/ports /sysutils/e2fsprogs
run 'make extract' --> will ...
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MySQL 5.5 Upgrade Issue
I'm trying to upgrade "databases/mysql55-server" from 5.5.55 to 5.5.56
These are the errors I am receiving. I recently upgraded readline to version 7.
Any idea what I need to do to fix this mess?
$ ...
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