Compat6x - pfSense 2.3
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Hi all,
I've a problem while I'm trying to install Compat6x in the last version of pfSense 2.3.
I use these step (as root):
pkg update
pkg install compat6x-amd64
And this is the output:
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue…
pfSense-core repository is up-to-date.
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
pfSense repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'compat6x-amd64' have been found in the repositoriesAny suggestion?
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Unlike pfSense 2.2, pfSense 2.3 uses pkg for the base system and any pfSense packages, so pfSense 2.3 is configured to work only with the pfSense and pfSense-core repositories. pfSense 2.2 pkg was configured to work with the FreeBSD repository.
compat6x is not amongst the packages in the pfSense and pfSense core repositories, so you will have to install it from the FreeBSD repository. I'm not going to post instructions on how to add the FreeBSD repository to that list, as that creates the risk of shooting yourself in the foot by replacing a pfSense customised package with one from the FreeBSD repository, breaking pfSense. If you have a URL for an individual package you want to install, pkg install <url>should work.
With respect, why are you trying to install FreeBSD 6.x compatibility libraries on pfSense? FreeBSD 6.x went End of Life many years ago. Are there still any binaries worth running that are that old, let alone running on a security critical machine such as a firewall? FreeBSD 6.x binaries are unlikely to have been audited for security in many years. Almost no FreeBSD ports still depend on compat6x - most of those that do have long since been deleted.</url>
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With respect, why are you trying to install FreeBSD 6.x compatibility libraries on pfSense? FreeBSD 6.x went End of Life many years ago. Are there still any binaries worth running that are that old, let alone running on a security critical machine such as a firewall? FreeBSD 6.x binaries are unlikely to have been audited for security in many years. Almost no FreeBSD ports still depend on compat6x - most of those that do have long since been deleted.
That's the real question, indeed.
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Oh well, really simple…. I think it's the only way to install the VmWare tools.
Unfortunately, I always had some problems with the Open-VM-tools
Thank you guys;)
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Should be no need for VMware's tools. What problem were you having with open-vm-tools?