Tip: Rehash For Bash
rehash updates FreeBSD's path environment variables. When you have installed new port you may not be able to run the executables without specifying the path. rehash solves your problem most of the...
View ArticleCan't update ports with portupgrade
Today I tried to update my outdated ports with portupgrade -ai, but there is a lot of errors like:==> Installing for pkgconf-0.8.9 ===> Generating temporary packing list ===> Checking if...
View ArticleResolving error "tar: Unrecognized archive format on FreeBSD < 8.3"
Today I tried to install phpMyAdmin on older server, running on FreeBSD 8.1, but I've got error message:=> phpMyAdmin-4.0.5-all-languages.tar.xz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. =>...
View ArticleHowto: Upgrading Perl 5.10 to 5.14
The port 'lang/perl5.10' was removed on 2013-02-04 because: "Has expired: no longer under development, use lang/perl5.16 or lang/perl5.14". So we need to move from older 5.10 to newer 5.14. To upgrade...
View ArticleHowto: migrate from pkg_ tools to pkg
As you can read on FreeBSD Wiki:Pkg is the Next Generation package management tool for FreeBSD. It is the replacement for the current pkg_info/pkg_create/pkg_add tools that ports use to register local...
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