@markchen Awesome, glad that solved it!

If you are on 22.05 and want to stay there and make changes to packages you need to go to System > Update and set the update Branch to stay on 22.05.

If the branch is set to 23.01 it's going to try to pull things from 23.01.

The 3100 is fine on 23.01 in general, the problem that affected the 1100/2100 only affected the 1100/2100 and not other platforms.

@pdavis Same! I re-upgraded and didn't have the package issue again. I was also having the "Your device has not been registered for pfSense+" error message which I resolved as well. I don't think they were related but sharing just in case.

@paanvaannd said in Unable to modify (i.e., install, remove, or reinstall) packages via Web interface + Snort installed but not showing up in Web GUI:

Thank you for taking the time to help and explain, @bmeeks!

Per your and others' comments in that linked thread, I'm not hopeful that Snort/Suricata would have much hope of working on my SG-3100 even after 2.5.2 rolls around (I'd link directly to your comment but I can't figure out how to copy a permalink on this site...) so I may just upgrade to the SG-6100 since it's Intel-based.

Yes, the SG-3100 is not the best choice right now for the IDS/IPS packages. It is due to the 32-bit ARM processor chip in that box. Because of the 32-bit ARM processor and the lack of Rust support for it, it is not possible to run any version of Suricata on that hardware newer than 4.x. That is two versions behind, and no longer supported by the Suricata team.

@faust said in Unable to check for updates, Package Manager not working:

So, I may have found a solution.

Files in /usr/local/share/pfSense/pkg/repos where all empty, so I have just recovered those files from another exact same pfSense version (and model).

And everything seems OK now.

this was the fix for me as well. good thing we had a similar netgate 3100 elsewhere!

@Asadsarwar said in Installed packages not working nor installing:

As per the pfsense "The system is on latest version".

You wrote "2.4.4" and that's in your screen cap but the latest is 2.4.5. Probably the cleanest thing at this point is to install again, upgrade to 2.4.5 and then restore your config from backup.

it's the unofficial repos for e2guardian
you need to uninstall e2guardian
you need to restore /etc/inc/pkg-utils.orig or revert the 244_unofficial_packages_list.patch from System_Patches
and delete
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/Unofficial.conf
to remove that

Cool, thanks for confirming. 👍