Which Displays which package installed a specific fileįor more information on the different commands see 'pkg help '. Version Displays the versions of installed packages Upgrade Performs upgrades of packaged software distributions Updating Displays UPDATING information for a package Update Updates package repository catalogues Stats Displays package database statistics Shlib Displays which packages link against a specific shared library Set Modifies information about packages in the local database Search Performs a search of package repository catalogues

Rquery Queries information in repository catalogues Repo Creates a package repository catalogue Remove Deletes packages from the database and the system Register Registers a package into the local database Query Queries information about installed packages Install Installs packages from remote package repositories Info Displays information about installed packages j Execute pkg (1 ) inside a jail (8 ) -c Execute pkg (1 ) inside a chroot (8 ) -v Display pkg (1 ) versionĪdd Registers a package and installs it on the systemīackup Backs-up and restores the local package databaseĬheck Checks for missing dependencies and database consistencyĬreate Creates software package distributionsĭelete Deletes packages from the database and the systemįetch Fetches packages from a remote repository If you are running HEAD you will find that pkg is now part of the base system. Getting started: Install pkgngįirst let’s install pkgng, (should we be calling it simply ‘pkg’?), it is in the FreeBSD ports tree and you can find it under ports-mgmt/pkg. You might find the official wiki page interesting reading if you haven’t seen it already, pkgng - FreeBSD Wiki. Here is a quick overview of pkgng, how to use it and some of the new features that will be available. So here comes pkgng (pkg: (next/new) generation), this is FreeBSD’s next generation package manager and although still in beta, with a few features missing, it is very nice. While this is all true, there is still a gap for a good package manager that needs filling. You can always do it yourself by writing scripts around the pkg_* tools or using portmaster’s -packages-only option”. FreeBSD’s response has always been, (not actual quote), “We have the ports collection, which is cooler and more flexible than just having some easy to use package manager. For a long time GNU/linux users have always used this as a reason not to use FreeBSD and instead favour some GNU/linux combination with an all encompassing easy to use package manager, such as Debian’s apt-get.

Pkgng: First look FreeBSD’s new package managerįreeBSD has been long due a better package management system, pkg_add, pkg_info, etc just doesn’t cut it any more.

Freebsd install pkg