apt-get question

[Jaydog76]

Greeting all, tonight is my first time setting up and using FreeNas, so far I like it. I am no where near what I would call fluent in linux. The most time I have spent was tinkering with a few Raspberry Pi projects. The question that has me feeling like a complete idiot is; is there something special I need to do to turn on apt-get commands? I keep getting a command not found. This is while attempting it with a standard user using sudo apt-get update AND while trying as root (i know its a no no). On the user Jay for example, during creation I enabled the allow sudo option but I still get the same result. Seems during the raspberry projects I had to change a file or a setting, but for the life of me I can't find, but in all honesty, I'm not sure I had to.

Can anyone suggest what I might be missing? Is there other information that I need to supply to troubleshoot this? I know it is probably something stupid...

Please advise and thank you in advance.

PS I did search prior to asking, I got 9 results which didn't seem to look remotely close to this issue.

Thanks again

 

[dlavigne]

Note that FreeNAS isn't Linux-based, thus no apt-get. You can install FreeBSD packages, assuming you have installed a jail first. See
http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_jails.html#installing-freebsd-packages (and the rest of the documentation) for more info.

 

[Jaydog76]

And I see the "idiot" feeling was justified, lol. Thanks dlavigne, you provided the direction I was looking for.

 

[pirateghost]

Just curious why you would be attempting to install anything in your OS?

ALWAYS use a jail to install software. NEVER install directly on the OS.

Also, it might do you some good to understand differences in terms of 'package managers/management' in Linux as well as BSD. Apt-get is only for Debian based distros. Fedora uses dnf, opensuse uses zypper, Arch uses pacman, etc. Then you have the BSD world which is typically pkg or build from source using portsnap.

 

[Jaydog76]

pirateghost, as stated above, it was my first night setting it. Since then, I have learn a bit more. I really like how this OS is set up so far. Most of my non-Windows experience is on Raspbian a derivative of Debian. I now know they are very different from each other.

I really didn't understand the concept of the jails, I have a better understanding now. I actually like the concept, it seems cleaner and safer. I was trying FreeNas for 2 main reasons, I wanted an affordable NAS software to utilize a HTPC box that I don't use anymore and my kids wanted a Minecraft server set up again. So just installing the FreeNas software more or less took care of the first requirement. What triggered the post above was all of the tutorials I watched for for MC never mentioned actually installing the supplied plug in. I never looked at the plug ins because I didn't think they came with any out of the box.

Now I realize I have a new OS to learn. I am currently stuck getting the shares to work properly from my Windows machines. I know that there are several posts in this forum that cover that and I plan to sit down tonight and attempt to power through it. Permissions are and always have been my main obstacle.

Thanks for the reply, I didnt realize that there were so many different package handlers between systems.