Text editor 'nano' pkg: No packages available to install matching 'nano' 2.2.4
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Since the new version 2.2.4. text editor is missing from repository. The command below worked fine in 2.2.3. I also remember from previous version, the command pkg add nano also worked.
[2.2.4-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/usr/local/etc/rc.d: pkg install nano Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up-to-date. All repositories are up-to-date. Updating database digests format: 100% pkg: No packages available to install matching 'nano' have been found in the repositories[2.2.4-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/usr/local/etc/rc.d: pkg add nano pkg: nano: No such file or directory pkg: Was 'pkg install nano' meant? Failed to install the following 1 package(s): nano -
Use "ee" instead? (assuming it is included)
vi is awesome though, I encourage learning to use it.
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"ee" is installed by default, but I tried a few installs of 2.2.4 here and they all seemed to work:
[2.2.4-RELEASE][root@ki.vghs.example.com]/root: pkg update The package management tool is not yet installed on your system. Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/latest, please wait... Verifying signature with trusted certificate pkg.freebsd.org.2013102301... done Installing pkg-1.5.5... Extracting pkg-1.5.5: 100% Message for pkg-1.5.5: If you are upgrading from the old package format, first run: # pkg2ng Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... Fetching meta.txz: 100% 944 B 0.9kB/s 00:01 Fetching packagesite.txz: 100% 5 MiB 1.1MB/s 00:05 Processing entries: 100% FreeBSD repository update completed. 24402 packages processed. [2.2.4-RELEASE][root@ki.vghs.example.com]/root: pkg install nano Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up-to-date. All repositories are up-to-date. Updating database digests format: 100% The following 3 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): New packages to be INSTALLED: nano: 2.4.2 indexinfo: 0.2.3 gettext-runtime: 0.19.4 The process will require 3 MiB more space. 546 KiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: -
"nano" is just old habit. I'm familiar with "vi," so I was able to get through with it. The procedure from above worked. Thanks jimp.
pkg update
then
pkg2ng
and
pkg install nano -
No need for the pkg2ng step, that was part of the output when pkg was installed.
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