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    no snort option under pfsense pkg manager

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    • KOMK
      KOM
      last edited by

      @ravi said in no snort option under pfsense pkg manager:

      Under both Installed and Availiabe packages noting is there.

      You said 'noting is there" and I assume you meant 'nothing'. Then I asked you if 'nothing' meant other packages are in the list but not snort, or if the entire list is empty.

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        ravi @KOM
        last edited by

        @KOM Got it.
        Entire list is empty.

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        • KOMK
          KOM
          last edited by

          Lots of things could cause that. No route to host, Netgate doing maintenance... Some others had problems with the auto-update check, and disabling it solved the problem after an hour or so.

          What happens if you shell in and run:

          pkg-static update
          
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          • johnpozJ
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
            last edited by

            If you have no packages listed as available, then could be a connectivity issues to netgate/pfsense - did you have stuff installed before and now its not listed.. If that is the case than you could have something wrong with your local install.

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            • DerelictD
              Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
              last edited by Derelict

              It is almost always:

              1. The firewall itself cannot resolve DNS
              2. The firewall itself cannot connect to the update servers

              In more rare cases, the package database is corrupted and needs to be re-built.

              This might kick things into gear in that case:

              pkg-static clean -ay; pkg-static install -fy pkg pfSense-repo pfSense-upgrade; pkg-static upgrade -fy

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                ravi
                last edited by

                Thank you all. I will try them and come back.

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                  ravi @KOM
                  last edited by

                  @KOM VirtualBox_pfsense_12_07_2019_10_06_21.png

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                  • DerelictD
                    Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                    last edited by

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                    So you have dorked around with third party repositories and broke your package database.

                    My advice: back up your config, reinstall a fresh version of pfSense from https://www.pfsense.org/download/ and restore your configuration.

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                      ravi @Derelict
                      last edited by

                      @Derelict Thank you. Sure. I will do that.

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                        ravi
                        last edited by

                        Done fresh installation. Snort came. Thank you.

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