SOLVED: Issues with installing packages in a jail/shell

[Bernard Mentink]

Hi All,

I am very new to FreeNAS and FreeBSD, but enjoying my experience, especially as in only a couple of days, have setup a server using some spare hardware (not ideal but works well) including adding the Plex and Emby servers.

I am experimenting with BSD, by setting up a test Jail, linked to a volume dataset with the intention of adding new BSD packages and learning about BSD.

As a test, I tried installing Nano once logged into the testjail/shell with "jexec testjail tcsh" , but when I do "pkg install nano" I get:

pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:9:x86:64/latest/All/nano-2.2.6.txz: Not found

Same with other packages. On looking in the repo, I see a nano-2.4.3.txz version, eveything is out of date.
I had previously done a "pkg update; pkg upgrade" but it said eveything was up to date.

What can I do to remedy this?

PS: As my hardware is a bit on the old side, I had to use FreeNAS 9.2.1.19

 

[dlavigne]

I'm not sure what is up with the pkg errors. However, you can install using the port method instead, described in Section 10.5.2 of http://doc.freenas.org/9.2.1/freenas9.2.1_guide.pdf.

 

[Bernard Mentink]

I'm not sure what is up with the pkg errors. However, you can install using the port method instead, described in Section 10.5.2 of http://doc.freenas.org/9.2.1/freenas9.2.1_guide.pdf.

I can't do that either because you need to use portsnap and I can't install it ... I tried to install ports with svn, but there was errors in the fetch as well.

 

[Bernard Mentink]

I have solved this issue: I had to re-bootstrap pkg and then re-update/upgrade .... seems my version of pkg was too old .....