====== FreeBSD Packages ======

  * [[FreeBSD]]
  * [[FreeBSD Ports]]
  * [[pkg_add]]
  * [[pkg_upgrade]]

  * [[http://dev.digitaltrike.com/~steve/downloads/freebsd/|Package Lists]]
  * [[http://www.freebsd.org/ports/|FreeBSD Ports]]


==== Ports and Packages ====

A few notes regarding ports (source installs) and packages (binary installs):

  * The versions may be different from each other (PHP 5.3.15 in ports, PHP 5.3.14 in packages)
  * You can mix and match between the two (one source install, one binary), but it is **not recommended**
  * FreeBSD by default will install packages that were built for the original release
  * You must set ''PACKAGESITE'' environment variable yourself to get latest packages

== Setup package repo ==

csh:

<code>
echo setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9.0-stable/ >> ~/.cshrc
source ~/.cshrc
</code>

bash:

<code>
echo PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9.0-stable/ >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
</code>
==== Install Base Packages ====

Now you're ready to install system packages. The first thing to do is install bsdadminscripts which will make managing ''packages'' much simpler.

<code>
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdadminscripts
make clean install
</code>

The bsdadminsciripts package gets the package information directly from an FTP server, instead of relying on the data in ports.  It also comes with a script [[pkg_upgrade]] which makes installation and upgrading much simpler.

Install some basics to get started:

<code>
pkg_upgrade -r `fetch -q -o - http://beandog.org/downloads/freebsd/packages/base`
chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash
</code>

==== Install Fixes ====

Upgrade FreeBSD to use devel/pkgconf instead of devel/pkg-config:

<code>
pkg_upgrade -r portmaster
portmaster -o devel/pkgconf devel/pkg-config
</code>



==== Howto ====

List installed packages:

<code>
pkg_info
</code>

Download package list for parsing:

<code>
curl -s http://beandog.org/downloads/freebsd/packages/apache | cut -d "/" -f 2
</code>

==== Binaries ====

Install a package using the shortname, fex ''wget''.  This will pull in all dependencies as well.

<code>
pkg_add -r wget
</code>