How to use pkg and ports with freebsd 20.06.24

Installing or Uninstalling Software from FreeBSD Ports Collection

To install or uninstall a software using Ports collections, you first need to install Ports Collection if at all they were not installed with the OS.
Install Ports Collection using Portsnap on FreeBSD 12

The recommended way of installing Ports Collection on FreeBSD is to use Portsnap. Portsnap is a fast and user-friendly tool for retrieving the Ports Collection. It connects to a FreeBSD site, verifies the secure key, and downloads a new copy of the Ports Collection.

To begin with, run system update and upgrade

pkg update

pkg upgrade -f

download a compressed snapshot of the Ports Collection. The snapshot will be stored under /var/db/portsnap.

portsnap fetch

Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from ec2-ap-southeast-2.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching snapshot tag from ec2-ap-southeast-2.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
Fetching snapshot generated at Fri Jun 21 03:03:21 EAT 2019:
be72cc6990cd51c776b41c1a4e848af2b5516e4667ccc8          84 MB  126 kBps 11m20s
Extracting snapshot... done.
Verifying snapshot integrity... done.
Fetching snapshot tag from ec2-ap-southeast-2.portsnap.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
Updating from Fri Jun 21 03:03:21 EAT 2019 to Fri Jun 21 15:32:36 EAT 2019.
Fetching 5 metadata patches... done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 0 metadata files... done.
Fetching 51 patches. 
(51/51) 100.00%  done.                                 
done.
Applying patches... 
done.
Fetching 0 new ports or files... done.

Once the fetching completes, extract Ports Collection snapshot to /usr/ports. This can only be done if the snapshot was being fetched for the first time.

portsnap extract

If the Ports Collection snapshot has been downloaded before, you can simply update it by running the commands below;

portsnap fetch
portsnap update

You can however run this as a single command;

portsnap fetch update

Installing Software using Ports Collection

Before you can compile a software/application, here in called a port, ensure that you have GNU make (gmake)utility installed. To verify if gmake is installed;

which gmake
/usr/local/bin/gmake

Installing GNU make utility

If gmake is not installed, see below on how to install.

pkg install gmake

Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
	gmake: 4.2.1_3

Number of packages to be installed: 1

The process will require 2 MiB more space.
382 KiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
[1/1] Fetching gmake-4.2.1_3.txz: 100%  382 KiB 390.7kB/s    00:01    
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
[1/1] Installing gmake-4.2.1_3...
[1/1] Extracting gmake-4.2.1_3: 100%

Next, navigate to the specific sub-directory of the software/port to be installed. For example, in this guide, we are going to demonstrate how to install neofetch, command-line tool for fetching system information.

cd /usr/ports/sysutils/neofetch

Next, compile the port or software as shown below;

make install

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