@stephenw10
excellent. Solved my issue with missing packages.
Up to this point I was getting:
DBG(1)[97341]> pkg initialized
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
DBG(1)[97341]> PkgRepo: verifying update for pfSense-core
DBG(1)[97341]> PkgRepo: need forced update of pfSense-core
DBG(1)[97341]> Pkgrepo, begin update of '/var/db/pkg/repo-pfSense-core.sqlite'
DBG(1)[97341]> Request to fetch pkg+https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_2_amd64-core/meta.conf
DBG(1)[97341]> curl_open
DBG(1)[97341]> Fetch: fetcher used: pkg+https
DBG(1)[97341]> curl> fetching https://pkg.pfsense.org/pfSense_v2_7_2_amd64-core/meta.conf
DBG(1)[97341]> CURL> attempting to fetch from , left retry 3
* Couldn't find host pkg00-atx.netgate.com in the .netrc file; using defaults
* Trying 208.123.73.207:443...
* Connected to pkg00-atx.netgate.com (208.123.73.207) port 443
* ALPN: curl offers http/1.1
* CAfile: none
* CApath: /etc/ssl/certs/
* SSL certificate problem: self-signed certificate in certificate chain
* Closing connection
DBG(1)[97341]> CURL> attempting to fetch from , left retry 2
After the rehash, this was fixed and the packages re-appeared in the GUI.
Many thanks.