Install a package manager in FreeBSD 10

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If you have an internet connection, you can install pkg using pkg bootstrap. This invokes pkg-static, fetches and installs the package manager as a binary package.

If you do not want to install a binary package, you can go ahead and build ports-mgmt/pkg from the ports tree (http://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/pkg):

cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg  # adjust to where your ports tree is
make install

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user3007554

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

user3007554 almost 2 years
I was trying to install a package using pkg add, but I got the reply that

package manager not installed

To install that I used:
```
tar -C /tmp -zvxf pkg-1.2.1_1.txz
```
and then:
```
/tmp/usr/local/sbin/pkg-static pkg-1.2.1_1.txz
```
It worked out for the first time. But when I rebooted my PC I got an error:

error exit delayed from previous errors

How to install package manager from FreeBSD installation DVD now?
- plas about 10 years
  
  I may be wrong but isn't "pkg" standard install on FreeBSD10? I don't use packages, only ports but you shouldn't be installing the package manager that way. Instead you should use ports or the current package manager.
- user3007554 about 10 years
  
  Even i am not sure of "pkg" being standad installation. But when i dont have the acess to internet installing from the DVD is the only option, no?
- user3007554 about 10 years
  
  I know wether pkg is installed or not because whenever i try to install xorg using "pkg add xorg-7.7.txz" i get a reply that "package manager not installed. Do you want to install it [Yes/No]"
- plas about 10 years
  
  Then install it.
- user3007554 about 10 years
  
  I have alredy said that i have got no acess to internet. If i choose "yes" then it tries to download the file from its repos and then install it.
- Chipster about 10 years
  
  I know this sounds rudimentary, but check your available disk space on your volume(s).
- user3007554 about 10 years
  
  there is plenty of disk space as i have newly installed this os
- plas about 10 years
  
  Well, I double checked and pkg is the default so I'm wondering if you messed it up by trying to install it from source. Check the man page to see how to get it to install things from the DVD.
- user3007554 about 10 years
  
  it may be that.
- user3007554 about 10 years
  
  found out that pkg needs to get an update. So managed to get access to internet and updates pkg. now it works fine.