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Library missing after port update on FreeBSD
I have been confronted with some strange behavior after upgrading my ports with
portupgrade --all --interactive
I always miss "libsamba-credentials.so.0" (from "/usr/local/lib", ...
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Python 3.9 and pip-3.9 on FreeBSD 12.2
I'm facing a confusing situation. The official latest fully-supported version of Python is 3.9, and while it's available in FreeBSD pkg, pip-3.9 isn't, and I'll be needing it in the future when Python ...
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FreeBSD 12.1 pkg error: no trusted fingerprints
I have just installed FreeBSD 12.1 and want to give it a try. I used qemu. When I types pkg, it started normal bootstrapping. After downloading, it says No trusted fingerprint found matching package'...
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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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Verification of packages in a local mirror
Packages for several BSD and Linux operating systems / distributions are downloaded over a potentially insecure connecting or are later on replaced with a malicious version on the local disk.
The ...
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List Dependencies of Pending `pkg upgrade`
I wanted to update most of the stuff on my FreeBSD system, so I was going to perform a pkg upgrade. I noticed that one of the listed new packages to be installed was Wayland; I'm not interested in ...
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Change between `quarterly` and `latest` package set used by `pkg` tool in FreeBSD
The pkg tool in FreeBSD is usually set to draw upon either the quarterly or latest package set. The latest set may churn more often with updates, while the quarterly is meant to be more stable but not ...
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How to install directly from a package *.tgz file in NetBSD, OpenBSD, or FreeBSD
Is there any way to install software from the *.tgz file that is its package, in NetBSD? Or indeed in operating systems with similar package managers such as OpenBSD or FreeBSD?
For example, I can ...
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What is the difference between FreeBSD ports and pkgsrc?
I understand that pkgsrc can be run on most Unices, including macOS, Linux, and Cygwin. What is the difference between FreeBSD ports and pkgsrc? Is it because pkgsrc wants to be inclusive of all ...
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How does FreeBSD handle installing 2 packages which share a common dependency?
I'm working on FreeBSD 11 and already using programs with tcpdump as a dependency, which has libpcap and libsmi as dependencies.
I want to also install tshark, the console version of wireshark. I'll ...
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Installing letsencrypt on FreeBSD has failed
I've been able to install letsencrypt on FreeBSD the same I've been doing on Linux I do this:
git clone https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.git /opt/letsencrypt
cd /opt/letsencrypt
sudo ./...
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What is the equivalent of `apt list` in FreeBSD?
I have just started using FreeBSD again after some years of staying away from *BSD based systems (with the exception of macOS). I am using FreeBSD 11.0 and 12.0.
To manage packages, pkg seems rather ...
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FreeBSD built-in packages
I am trying to install/remove packages.
I use a bento/freebsd-10.3 virtualbox image to try on.
When I execute pkg info -q, I can see a list of installed packages.
What I am confused about is that ...
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Is it possible to set specific version of packages, which main package depends on?
We have development environment on FreeBSD 10.3. I've heard that FreeBSD manages package dependencies in that way, that it always looks for the newest version of all packages, which main package ...
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