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    • D
      dgcom
      last edited by

      For people who used to certain tools, they become essential.
      You can't compare mc to any other - Winscp is clumsy and not too keyboard oriented.
      Using ls and tab for directory competition? Good at times, but full ncurses file manager is way better.

      Many other BSD/Linux distros now include it by default and it should be either part of pfSense or one of the available packages.

      That and nano editor as well.

      Installing manually may work, but may also break with upgrades…

      DG

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        pfBasic Banned
        last edited by

        +1. I don't know what the technical or security implications (if any) would be, but this does seem like it would be a nice to have package for pfSense. It would make it more accessible.

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        • ssbarneaS
          ssbarnea
          last edited by

          Is there a better place to register requests for adding packages like mc (midnightcommander) on pfsense.

          Somehow I find that adding comments to a single forum thread named package whishlist as useful as sending them to /dev/null. Nobody sane would be able to watch a thread like this and also if people would want to work on addresing this, they would not be able join efforts.

          Isn't better to use a bug tracker for this? How about https://redmine.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense-packages/ ?

          For the moment this worked on pfsense-2.4.1:

          pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:11:x86:64/latest/All/libslang2-2.3.1_1.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:11:x86:64/latest/All/mc-4.8.19_3.txz
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            stilez
            last edited by

            @ssbarnea:

            Is there a better place to register requests for adding packages like mc (midnightcommander) on pfsense.
            Somehow I find that adding comments to a single forum thread named package whishlist as useful as sending them to /dev/null.

            This wouldn't be a "package" in the sense of a pfsense-GUI addon. It's a FreeBSD port that you want included in the build script. For that, a feature/enhancement request on the pfsense bug+feature tracker (redmine.pfsense.org) is probably the way to go. It's not a big thing to include a ported pkg and won't disrupt the builds to do so, so if there's a reasonable case for it (which there probably is: it's generally useful!), the devs might well do so.

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              Balanga
              last edited by

              I'm trying to set up pfSense (2.3.5-RELEASE (i386)) on a ThinkPad T60 for test purposes and have come across a thread I started over a year ago, and wondered if there is a simple way to install Midnight Commander on pfSense yet…

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                cmbc
                last edited by

                Tested of pfSense 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3

                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/png-1.6.34.txz
                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libslang2-2.3.1_3.txz
                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/kbproto-1.0.7.txz
                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/xproto-7.0.31.txz
                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libXau-1.0.8_3.txz
                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libXdmcp-1.1.2.txz
                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libpthread-stubs-0.4.txz
                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libxcb-1.12_2.txz
                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libX11-1.6.5,1.txz
                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/xextproto-7.3.0.txz
                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libXext-1.3.3_1,1.txz
                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/mc-4.8.20_2.txz
                /usr/local/bin/mc

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  I don't see a feature request open for this yet. https://redmine.pfsense.org/

                  Steve

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                    tristangrimaux
                    last edited by

                    Tested on pfSense 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3
                    Packages to install (Cmbc's answer is missing libssh2 pkg)

                    pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/png-1.6.34.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libslang2-2.3.1_3.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/kbproto-1.0.7.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/xproto-7.0.31.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libXau-1.0.8_3.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libXdmcp-1.1.2.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libpthread-stubs-0.4.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libxcb-1.12_2.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libX11-1.6.5,1.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/xextproto-7.3.0.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libXext-1.3.3_1,1.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libssh2-1.8.0,3.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/mc-4.8.20_2.txz

                    Then to have a proper shell in mc, execute this

                    mv /usr/local/bin/mc /usr/local/bin/mc.real
echo 'sh -c "export SHELL=/bin/tcsh ; /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc-wrapper.sh"' > /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc
chmod +x /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc
sed -i.bak 's;/usr/local/bin/mc -P;/usr/local/bin/mc.real -P;' /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc-wrapper.sh
ln -s /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc /usr/local/bin/mc
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                      KARLAGIN
                      last edited by

                      Tested on 2.4.5-RELEASE

                      pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/png-1.6.34.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libslang2-2.3.1_3.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/kbproto-1.0.7.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/xproto-7.0.31.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libXau-1.0.8_3.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libXdmcp-1.1.2.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libpthread-stubs-0.4.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libxcb-1.12_2.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libX11-1.6.5,1.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/xextproto-7.3.0.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libXext-1.3.3_1,1.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/libssh2-1.8.0,3.txz
pkg install python27
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/release_2/All/mc-4.8.20_2.txz

                      mv /usr/local/bin/mc /usr/local/bin/mc.real
echo 'sh -c "export SHELL=/bin/tcsh ; /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc-wrapper.sh"' > /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc
chmod +x /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc
sed -i.bak 's;/usr/local/bin/mc -P;/usr/local/bin/mc.real -P;' /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc-wrapper.sh
ln -s /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc /usr/local/bin/mc

                      Google help you

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                      • GertjanG
                        Gertjan @KARLAGIN
                        last edited by Gertjan

                        @KARLAGIN said in How can I install Midnight Commander on pfSense?:

                        Tested on 2.4.5-RELEASE

                        That's old ......
                        p1 is there ;)

                        edit : with another FreeBSD kernel version, so other ? libs etc.

                        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                          tristangrimaux
                          last edited by

                          Tested on 2.5.0-RELEASE

                          pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/png-1.6.37.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libslang2-2.3.2_2.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libXau-1.0.9.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libXdmcp-1.1.3.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libpthread-stubs-0.4.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libxcb-1.14_1.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libX11-1.6.12,1.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libXext-1.3.4,1.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libssh2-1.9.0_3,3.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libsigsegv-2.12.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/diffutils-3.7.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/mc-4.8.24.txz

mv /usr/local/bin/mc /usr/local/bin/mc.real
echo 'sh -c "export SHELL=/bin/tcsh ; /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc-wrapper.sh"' > /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc
chmod +x /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc
sed -i.bak 's;/usr/local/bin/mc -P;/usr/local/bin/mc.real -P;' /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc-wrapper.sh
ln -s /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc /usr/local/bin/mc
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                          • bmeeksB
                            bmeeks @tristangrimaux
                            last edited by

                            @tristangrimaux said in How can I install Midnight Commander on pfSense?:

                            Tested on 2.5.0-RELEASE

                            pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/png-1.6.37.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libslang2-2.3.2_2.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libXau-1.0.9.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libXdmcp-1.1.3.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libpthread-stubs-0.4.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libxcb-1.14_1.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libX11-1.6.12,1.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libXext-1.3.4,1.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libssh2-1.9.0_3,3.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libsigsegv-2.12.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/diffutils-3.7.txz
pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/mc-4.8.24.txz

mv /usr/local/bin/mc /usr/local/bin/mc.real
echo 'sh -c "export SHELL=/bin/tcsh ; /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc-wrapper.sh"' > /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc
chmod +x /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc
sed -i.bak 's;/usr/local/bin/mc -P;/usr/local/bin/mc.real -P;' /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc-wrapper.sh
ln -s /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc /usr/local/bin/mc

                            Just FYI. This can be very dangerous (installing packages from repos other than the official pfSense one). Notice how installing Midnight Commander pulled in a bunch of other dependency packages? If any of those pulled in packages happens to overwrite a critical pfSense system library with a different version, you could break your firewall.

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                            • GertjanG
                              Gertjan @bmeeks
                              last edited by

                              Yeah, its advised to have a copy of the config and an USB with the latest pfSense version ready.

                              No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                              Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                tristangrimaux @bmeeks
                                last edited by

                                @bmeeks midnight commander should be included in PFSense, and more tools for those of us who live and breathe in a text terminal.

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                                • bmeeksB
                                  bmeeks @tristangrimaux
                                  last edited by bmeeks

                                  @tristangrimaux said in How can I install Midnight Commander on pfSense?:

                                  @bmeeks midnight commander should be included in PFSense, and more tools for those of us who live and breathe in a text terminal.

                                  I think you will find a difference of opinion among cyber security professionals. Some think a firewall should only have the absolute bare minimum of software to be a firewall. Anything else is seen as just an additional attack surface. But others are willing to tolerate a firewall with additional software installed on it. Neither is 100% the only correct answer.

                                  It is a fact, though, that the more software installed on the firewall, the greater the potential attack surface because each installed package (and its dependencies) drags in potential security flaws.

                                  The point of my original reply was not to argue, but just to point out for others reading this thread, that may be considering installing third-party packages from outside the official pfSense package repo, that you can surely break the firewall if an installed package brings in a different version or even flavor of a critical system shared library.

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                                    tristangrimaux @bmeeks
                                    last edited by

                                    @bmeeks your point is most valid

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                                    • i64ruI
                                      i64ru @tristangrimaux
                                      last edited by i64ru

                                      Work PfSense 2.5.2-RELEASE

                                      pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/png-1.6.37.txz
                                      pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libslang2-2.3.2_2.txz
                                      pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libXau-1.0.9.txz
                                      ++pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/xorgproto-2020.1.txz добавить этот пакет, без него не встанет libXdmcp
                                      pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libXdmcp-1.1.3.txz
                                      pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libpthread-stubs-0.4.txz
                                      pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libxcb-1.14_1.txz
                                      pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libX11-1.6.12,1.txz
                                      pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libXext-1.3.4,1.txz
                                      pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libssh2-1.9.0_3,3.txz
                                      pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/libsigsegv-2.12.txz
                                      pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/diffutils-3.7.txz
                                      ++ pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_3/All/python37-3.7.12.txz добавить этот пакет, без него не встанет mc-4.8.24
                                      pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_2/All/mc-4.8.24.txz

                                      mv /usr/local/bin/mc /usr/local/bin/mc.real
                                      echo 'sh -c "export SHELL=/bin/tcsh ; /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc-wrapper.sh"' > /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc
                                      chmod +x /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc
                                      sed -i.bak 's;/usr/local/bin/mc -P;/usr/local/bin/mc.real -P;' /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc-wrapper.sh
                                      ln -s /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc /usr/local/bin/mc

                                      потом пишем exit
                                      снова 8 to shell
                                      mc !!!! work!

                                      Спасибо всем друзья!

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                                        drknssc @i64ru
                                        last edited by

                                        @i64ru проблема!!! alt text
                                        никаких релизов нет! ломаю голову уже часа 3!

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                                        • stephenw10S
                                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                          last edited by

                                          The pkgs are there the directory listing was just disabled due to continued attacks on the pkg servers.
                                          In pfSense 2.6 you would want to use FreeBSD latest or quarterly though.

                                          You can still see and download the file containing the full YAML listing of all the packages so you can find the correct path.

                                          Steve

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                                            PhilipZ
                                            last edited by PhilipZ

                                            Work PfSense 2.7.2-RELEASE
                                            Because I prefer bash as shell is the first line. Last few lines are copied from i64ru and modified to work with bash

                                            pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/release_0/All/libsigsegv-2.14.pkg
                                            pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/release_0/All/bash-5.2.15.pkg
                                            pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/release_0/All/diffutils-3.8.pkg
                                            pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/release_0/All/libXau-1.0.9.pkg
                                            pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/release_0/All/xorgproto-2022.1_1.pkg
                                            pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/release_0/All/libXdmcp-1.1.3.pkg
                                            pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/release_0/All/libxcb-1.15_1.pkg
                                            pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/release_0/All/libX11-1.8.6_1,1.pkg
                                            pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/release_0/All/libXext-1.3.4,1.pkg
                                            pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/release_0/All/libslang2-2.3.3.pkg
                                            pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/release_0/All/python39-3.9.18.pkg
                                            pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/release_0/All/zip-3.0_1.pkg
                                            pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/release_0/All/mc-4.8.30.pkg

                                            mv /usr/local/bin/mc /usr/local/bin/mc.real
                                            echo 'sh -c "export SHELL=/usr/local/bin/tcsh ; /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc-wrapper.sh"' > /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc
                                            chmod +x /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc
                                            sed -i.bak 's;/usr/local/bin/mc -P;/usr/local/bin/mc.real -P;' /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc-wrapper.sh
                                            ln -s /usr/local/libexec/mc/mc /usr/local/bin/mc

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