Socat (and others) in 2 easy steps !

XZed

Hello,

I'm astonished by the very few results about socat and others packages installation… i've read a lot of fuzz about compiling on a developer's edition plateform, etc.

Here's my way :

Add the package/port (matching with your pfSense distro version) :

pkg_add -r http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/net/socat-1.7.2.0.tbz

Re-compute the internal hash table :

rehash

It's done !

jimp

We've got a couple wiki pages that cover that. Really though you don't want to use packages-8-stable. There is a chance it refers to libraries that do not exist.

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Installing_FreeBSD_Packages