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    How to reinstall packages on 2.4.5?

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      mcarson75
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      I tried the upgrade to 2.5.0. Many things didn't work. (OpenVPN tunnels to NordVPN, 1 of my IPSec tunnels, NUT, web pages taking a long time to load, both the pfsense gui and other pages).

      After spending all afternoon troubleshooting and getting nowhere, I decided to reinstall 2.4.5 for now. I had several issues at first with the restore breaking everything when it tried to reinstall packages. Finally figured I needed to set the branch to 2.4.5 and was able to do the restore and get most things back up.

      However, it only installed the ACME package. I also need Avahi, haproxy, NUT, and pfBlocker. When I go to choose any of these however it just hangs on "Please wait while the update system initializes" and doesn't do anything further.

      How can I reinstall the correct packages? I'm fine with working at the command line if necessary.

      Thanks,
      -Matt

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        Traveller @mcarson75
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        @mcarson75 You need to go to the System > Update page and select the Previous stable version (2.4.5 DEPRECATED) branch.

        This will allow you to install packages on 2.4.5.

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          mcarson75 @Traveller
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          @traveller, thanks. I had already done that actually, but it still doesn't work. I've discovered that Package Manager seems to be broken. Trying to run pkg -v at the command line returns

          Shared object "libarchive.so.7" not found, required by "pkg"

          I also see these lines at the console where I would normally see the interfaces:

          /usr/local/bin/php-cgi: Undefined symbol "alphasort@FBSD_1.5"
/usr/local/bin/php: Undefined symbol "alphasort@FBSD_1.5"

          So I think the restore process is still breaking something. Just not sure how to go about fixing it. Maybe restoring things one by one?

          Thanks,
          -Matt

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            Traveller @mcarson75
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            @mcarson75 The earlier installs might have broken things.

            Consider starting again, and changing the branch first thing.

            I got lucky in that things hung, but I still have a working Package Manager. Then, I found the correct solution.

            Good luck!

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              mcarson75 @Traveller
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              @traveller thanks, I'll keep playing. Last time I did a clean bare-metal install of 2.4.5, then set the branch, then restored my backup. I think I should have set the branch on my old setup before I took the backup in the first place, but a bit late for that. I did try manually modifying the config xml to set the branch but it still didn't work. I'll try a few other things. I might have an older backup too.

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                mcarson75
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                I finally got everything running on 2.4.5. I made a copy of my config.xml file and deleted the entire <installedpackages> section and restored everything else. I made sure that branch was set to 2.4.5, and then installed all of the packages I needed. Then I restored just the package manager from my original backup. Finally everything seems to be back up and working.

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                  Traveller @mcarson75
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                  @mcarson75 Oof!

                  Glad you got that sorted.

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                    taxilian @mcarson75
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                    @mcarson75 said in How to reinstall packages on 2.4.5?:

                    @traveller, thanks. I had already done that actually, but it still doesn't work. I've discovered that Package Manager seems to be broken. Trying to run pkg -v at the command line returns
                    Shared object "libarchive.so.7" not found, required by "pkg"

                    Just in case anyone else is having this issue, I was able to fix it by first setting the branch to 2.4.5 DEPRECATED and then (this is the important bit) run:

                    pkg-static bootstrap -f

                    This fixed the pkg issue for me; unfortunately I still get the "undefined symbol alphasort" thing, but at least I'm able to work on packages now

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                      baseer @taxilian
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                      @taxilian

                      this worked for me

                      System / Update / System Update
                      set branch to 2.4.5 DEPRECATED

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