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      mervincm
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      In an attempt to test my Realtek NIC stability I have tried to install the iperf package from the package manager. Under available packages is a quite a bit older package for 2.0.5.5_3. regardless it is good enough for my purposes, so I attempted to install it via the GUI, and got an error.

      pfSense-pkg-iperf installation failed!
      

      searching the forum, I saw advice that you could install v3 via ssh command line (I didn't know there were any packages not in the package manager!) so I tried that. (pkg install iperf3) I got another sort of error

      pfSense-core repository is up to date.
      Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
      pfSense repository is up to date.
      All repositories are up to date.
      The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
      New packages to be INSTALLED:
              iperf3: 3.6 [pfSense]
      Number of packages to be installed: 1
      104 KiB to be downloaded.
      Proceed with this action? [y/N]: Y
      [1/1] Fetching iperf3-3.6.txz: 100%  103 KiB 105.9kB/s    00:01
      pkg: cached package iperf3-3.6: size mismatch, fetching from remote
      Fetching iperf3-3.6.txz: 100%  103 KiB 105.9kB/s    00:01
      pkg: cached package iperf3-3.6: size mismatch, cannot continue
      

      at this point I am wondering if something is wrong with my packaging, so I followed the advice in the documentation on fixing a broken pkg database, and that seemed to go bad as well ...

      /root: /bin/mkdir -p /var/db/pkg/ /root/var/db/pkg/
      /root: /usr/sbin/pkg-static update -f
      /usr/sbin/pkg-static: Command not found.
      /root: /usr/sbin/pkg-static install -yf pkg pfSense pfSense-kernel-pfSense
      /usr/sbin/pkg-static: Command not found.
      /root: /etc/rc.php_ini_setup
      

      afterwards I tried to install another simple package (cron)

      pfSense-pkg-Cron installation failed!
      

      Strangely, I was able to upgrade an existing package

      pfSense-pkg-acme reinstallation successfully completed.
      

      and

      pfSense-pkg-openvpn-client-export reinstallation successfully completed.
      

      not knowing really how to handle this I reverted to my IT crowd training and turned it off and on again.

      this time

      pfSense-pkg-iperf installation successfully completed.
      

      and since why not I tried the iperf3 package and this time..

      1/1] Fetching iperf3-3.6.txz: 100%  104 KiB 106.6kB/s    00:01
      Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
      [1/1] Installing iperf3-3.6...
      [1/1] Extracting iperf3-3.6: 100%
      

      so, other than to add my experience for the next person .. any ideas why I could reinstall existing packages, but not install new ones, and a simple reboot fixed it?

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