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[Danny Hosford]

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FreeBSD is bundled with a rich collection of system tools as part of the base system.In addition, FreeBSD provides two complementary technologies for installing third-party software: the FreeBSD Ports Collection,for installing from source, and packages, for installing from pre-built binaries.Either method may be used to install software from local media or from the network.

A FreeBSD port is a collection of files designed to automate the process of compiling an application from source code.The files that comprise a port contain all the necessary information to automatically download, extract, patch, compile, and install the application.

Both packages and ports understand dependencies.If a package or port is used to install an application and a dependent library is not already installed, the library will automatically be installed first.

A FreeBSD package contains pre-compiled copies of all the commands for an application, as well as any configuration files and documentation.A package can be manipulated with the pkg(8) commands, such as pkg install.

In some cases, multiple packages will exist for the same application to specify certain settings. For example, NGINX is available as a nginx package and a nginx-lite package, depending on whether or not Xorg is installed. Creating multiple packages rapidly becomes impossible if an application has more than one or two different compile-time options.

Dan Langille maintains FreshPorts which provides a comprehensive search utility and also tracks changes to the applications in the Ports Collection. Registered users can create a customized watch list in order to receive an automated email when their watched ports are updated.

Since pkg(8) only works with binary packages, it is not a replacement for such tools.Those tools can be used to install software from both binary packages and the Ports Collection, while pkg(8) installs only binary packages.

pkg(7) will intercept the command, and if you confirm that is your intention, download the pkg(8) tarball, install pkg(8) from it, bootstrap the local package database and then proceed to run the command you originally requested.

More recent versions of pkg(7) understand pkg -N as a test to see if pkg(8) is installed without triggering the installation, and conversely, pkg bootstrap[-f] to install pkg(8) (or force it to be reinstalled) without performing any other actions.

The Quarterly branch provides users with a more predictable and stable experience for port and package installation and upgrades.This is done essentially by only allowing non-feature updates.Quarterly branches aim to receive security fixes (that may be version updates, or backports of commits), bug fixes and ports compliance or framework changes.The Quarterly branch is cut from HEAD at the beginning of every (yearly) quarter in January, April, July, and October.Branches are named according to the year (YYYY) and quarter (Q1-4) they are created in.For example, the quarterly branch created in January 2023, is named 2023Q1.And the Latest branch provides the latest versions of the packages to the users.

To install a binary package pkg-install(8) can be used.This command uses repository data to determine which version of the software to install and if it has any uninstalled dependencies.For example, to install curl:

Information about the packages installed on a system can be viewed by running pkg-info(8) which, when run without any switches, will list the package version for either all installed packages or the specified package.

Software vulnerabilities are regularly discovered in third-party applications.To address this, pkg includes a built-in auditing mechanism.To determine if there are any known vulnerabilities for the software installed on the system, use pkg-audit(8):

Removing a package may leave behind dependencies which are no longer required.Unneeded packages that were installed as dependencies (leaf packages) can be automatically detected and removed using pkg-autoremove(8):

pkg prime-list is an alias command declared in /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf.There are many others that can be used to query the package database of the system.For instance, command pkg prime-origins can be used to get the origin port directory of the list mentioned above:

By default, pkg stores binary packages in a cache directory defined by PKG_CACHEDIR in pkg.conf(5).Only copies of the latest installed packages are kept. Older versions of pkg kept all previous packages.To remove these outdated binary packages, run:

pkg-lock(8) is used to lock packages against reinstallation, modification or deletion.pkg-unlock(8) unlocks the named packages.Either variant only has an effect on currently installed packages.Consequently it is impossible to block installation of a new package by using this mechanism, unless such an installation implies updating a locked package.

Software within the FreeBSD Ports Collection can undergo major version number changes.To address this, pkg has a built-in command to update package origins.This can be useful, for example, if lang/python3 is renamed to lang/python311 so that lang/python3 can now represent version 3.11.

Before installing and using the Ports Collection, please be aware that it is generally ill-advised to use the Ports Collection in conjunction with the binary packages provided via pkg to install software.pkg, by default, tracks quarterly branch-releases of the ports tree and not HEAD.Dependencies could be different for a port in HEAD compared to its counterpart in a quarterly branch release and this could result in conflicts between dependencies installed by pkg and those from the Ports Collection.If the Ports Collection and pkg must be used in conjunction, then be sure that your Ports Collection and pkg are on the same branch release of the ports tree.

The Ports Collection contains directories for software categories.Inside each category are subdirectories for individual applications.Each application subdirectory contains a set of files that tells FreeBSD how to compile and install that program, called a ports skeleton.Each port skeleton includes these files and directories:

If more control over the ports tree is needed or if local changes need to be maintained, or if running FreeBSD-CURRENT,Git can be used to obtain the Ports Collection.Refer to the Git Primer for a detailed description of Git.

We add --depth 1 to the git command line to clone the tree without obtaining the commit history, which saves time and is acceptable for most users.If you have your own changes to the ports tree, or need the history for any reason, omit the --depth 1 argument below.

This section provides basic instructions on using the Ports Collection to install or remove software.The detailed description of available make targets and environment variables is available in ports(7).

Before compiling any port, be sure to update the Ports Collection as described in the previous section.Since the installation of any third-party software can introduce security vulnerabilities, it is recommended to first check for known security issues related to the port.Alternatively, run pkg audit -F before installing a new port.This command can be configured to automatically perform a security audit and an update of the vulnerability database during the daily security system check. For more information, refer to pkg-audit(8) and periodic(8).

Some shells keep a cache of the commands that are available in the directories listed in the PATH environment variable, to speed up lookup operations for the executable file of these commands.Users of the tcsh shell should type rehash so that a newly installed command can be used without specifying its full path.Use hash -r instead for the sh shell.Refer to the documentation for the shell for more information.

During installation, a working subdirectory is created which contains all the temporary files used during compilation.Removing this directory saves disk space and minimizes the chance of problems later when upgrading to the newer version of the port:

Some ports provide build options which can be used to enable or disable application components, provide security options, or allow for other customizations.Examples include www/firefox and security/gpgme.If the port depends upon other ports which have configurable options,it may pause several times for user interaction as the default behavior is to prompt the user to select options from a menu.To avoid this and do all of the configuration in one batch, run make config-recursive within the port skeleton.Then, run make install [clean] to compile and install the port.

When using config-recursive, the list of ports to configure are gathered by the all-depends-list target.It is recommended to run make config-recursive until all dependent ports options have been defined,and ports options screens no longer appear, to be certain that all dependency options have been configured.

The ports system uses fetch(1) to download the source files, which supports various environment variables.The FTP_PASSIVE_MODE, FTP_PROXY, and FTP_PASSWORD variables may need to be set if the FreeBSD system is behind a firewall or FTP/HTTP proxy.See fetch(3) for the complete list of supported variables.

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