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    Want to install mc on my pfsense box, all ok but….

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    • Z
      zor1984
      last edited by

      Ok i want to install mc to my pfsense box…I migrating my pkg2ng base and almost install all prerequisites to mc package, thats my pkg info:

      ca_root_nss-3.17.2             The root certificate bundle from the Mozilla Project
      curl-7.38.0_2                  Non-interactive tool to get files from FTP, GOPHER, HTTP(S) servers
      gettext-0.18.3.1_1             GNU gettext package
      glib-2.36.3_4                  Some useful routines of C programming (current stable version)
      indexinfo-0.2                  Utility to regenerate the GNU info page index
      kbproto-1.0.6                  KB extension headers
      libX11-1.6.2_2,1               X11 library
      libXau-1.0.8_2                 Authentication Protocol library for X11
      libXdmcp-1.1.1_2               X Display Manager Control Protocol library
      libXext-1.3.2_2,1              X11 Extension library
      libffi-3.0.13_2                Foreign Function Interface
      libiconv-1.14_4                Character set conversion library
      libidn-1.29                    Internationalized Domain Names command line tool
      libpthread-stubs-0.3_6         This library provides weak aliases for pthread functions
      libslang2-2.2.4_6              Routines for rapid alpha-numeric terminal applications development
      libssh2-1.4.3_4,2              Library implementing the SSH2 protocol
      libxcb-1.10_2                  The X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) library
      libxml2-2.9.2_1                XML parser library for GNOME
      mc-4.8.13_1                    Midnight Commander, a free Norton Commander Clone
      pcre-8.35_1                    Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library
      perl5-5.16.3_11                Practical Extraction and Report Language
      pkg-1.3.8_3                    Package manager
      png-1.5.19                     Library for manipulating PNG images
      python27-2.7.8_5               Interpreted object-oriented programming language
      wget-1.15_2                    Retrieve files from the Net via HTTP(S) and FTP
      xextproto-7.3.0                XExt extension headers
      xproto-7.0.26                  X11 protocol headers
      
      

      But when i get to installing perl5 it's giving me high five with this:

      [1/1] Reinstalling perl5-5.16.3_11: 100%
      makewhatis: not found
      makewhatis: not found
      cd: /usr/include: No such file or directory
      pkg: POST-INSTALL script failed
      
      

      So, i must beeing f$cked off with that question, cause i know that pfsense is not intended for doing these sweet "make" tools available for me and even though I can ruine everything, still mc is installed but "mc" command never gonna happens to show up on my console so the system is shows me that I am a big a$$hat "mc: Command not found."
      Once I tried to install mc on my 2.1.5 but it ruine some libraries so nvm. The question is, can I somehow install perl5 without getting these errors + run mc package properly? Or i have no chances and must give up?  ::)

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        Don't do that. Really, don't do that.

        It's not likely to work much of the time for a program that large/complex and odds are it will pull in libraries that may conflict with versions we include already.

        You should never need to mess with pkg2ng either unless you upgraded from an older version where you also manually added packages which is asking for even more trouble.

        Don't treat the firewall like a shell box. If you want to browse the filesystem, connect via scp from a system that can display the files how you want.

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