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    Makewhatis not found

    Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      NOYB
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      Is makewhatis supposed to e installed?

      [5/42] Extracting perl5-5.24.1:….......done
      makewhatis: not found
      makewhatis: not found
      [6/42] Upgrading pcre from 8.39_1 to 8.40…

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        doktornotor Banned
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        I don't think anyone wants to waste space with that, esp. since whatis is missing as well, so the DB would be absolutely useless.

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          kpa
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          PfSense doesn't have man(1) and the related utilities but the packages still want to run the indexing tools on install. It's a bit broken but we have to do with what the FreeBSD ports offers.

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