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Reply Reply as topic. This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it. I'm trying to run portsnap fetch on pfsense cli but I'm getting the error "Command not found" I'm still learning so please help me.

Another question is will it affect my pfsense? Oh ok. The quicksearch target only returns the port name, path, and description. Below, you can see the difference in the output of the search and quicksearch targets. The search target includes full information about the matches:. On the other hand, the quicksearch target only displays the essential information about the matches it finds:.

It is possible to combine different search types to narrow down the results. For example, if we were to search for the ntop network monitor, we might see results that look like this:. Here, we can see that most of the results are related to ntop , but we also have a book about learning Python. We can further filter by adding a path specification:. We can also modify the behavior of the search in a few different ways.

Some valid modifiers are:. One further situation that you may come across in your searches is a port that has been moved or deleted. These results look like this:.

If this field is present, but empty, the port has been deleted. Even though these are deleted, they will still show up in your search results. As you can see, all of the entries that had been moved or deleted are now filtered out of our results. Once you have found a port that you wish to install, you can easily download the required files, build the binary, and install it using the make command.

To install a port, change to the directory of the port within the port tree. You can find this location through any of the search methods given above. To demonstrate this, we will be installing a port called portmaster , which we will need later in this guide. First, change to the port location. The portmaster port is kept in the ports-mgmt category:. Now, we can easily download, configure, compile, and install the port using make targets. Since these operations affect our system, we will need to use sudo.

The long way to do this is through individual calls to make , like this. Do not type these commands yet, we will show you a much shorter version momentarily:. We could shorten this a bit by listing each target after a single make command like this:. However, this is almost always unnecessary. Each of the targets listed above will call any preceding targets necessary in order to complete the task. So the above could simply be condensed into:. Typically, we would want to expand this chain of commands slightly to make sure we configured everything correctly.

We usually want to specify config-recursive , an option not in the above pipeline, before the install target in order to take care of configuration for this port and any dependencies at the beginning of the installation. Otherwise the build process may halt and wait for user input part way through building the necessary dependencies. We also usually want to clean up a bit after the installation to reclaim disk space and keep a clean system.

We can do this with the clean or distclean targets. The clean target deletes the extracted source code used to build this port and any dependency ports. This will prompt you to configure the port and any dependencies at the beginning of the process. Afterwards it will download and verify the integrity of the source archive. It will then change contexts to fulfill any missing dependencies. When that process is complete, it will return to the port in question, extract the archive, apply any necessary patches, and configure it according to the options you selected.

It will then compile the application and install it on your system. Afterwards, it will remove the expanded source code for this port and any dependencies. It will then delete the source archive for this port.

You will be presented with a single dialog box for the application. If you are using one of the listed shells, you can choose to configure shell completion for the tool here:. The port will be downloaded, configured, and installed. If you are using the default tcsh , you will want to rescan your PATH after every installation so that your shell environment is aware of all of the installed applications:.

Keep this in mind when you are configuring or starting applications. One thing to keep in mind is that if you are installing a port that will be run as a service, the installation procedure will not start the service automatically.

Before installing a desktop environment, a graphical user interface GUI is needed. Xorg the X Windows System can be installed as a package or port. Both require root privileges so users should first run:.

To continue working with FreeBSD and configuring system tools, a general understanding of text editing will be needed. Read through the manual page. A handy cheat sheet for vi commands can also be found above. The X Window System uses 3D acceleration.