Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:10:19 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com> Cc: gahn via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: install binary packages without pkg Message-ID: <20181129111019.0d95ebe1.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <2108350937.8699050.1543459720257@mail.yahoo.com> References: <2108350937.8699050.1543459720257.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <2108350937.8699050.1543459720257@mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 02:48:40 +0000 (UTC), gahn via freebsd-questions wrote: > i have a freebsd 7.1 station. how could i install binary packages > from freebsd sites without pkg? You probably can't. FreeBSD 7 is long time EOL. It doesn't even have pkg. If I remember correctly, the new pkg system appeared along FreeBSD 8, and became standard around FreeBSD 9. Packages for FreeBSD 7 are no longer being generated for current software. The older pkg_ format and the new pkg format for precompiled packages are not compatible. On a FreeBSD 7 system, you'd have to use the program pkg_install to install packages. As long as they are in the old format, this will still work. It might be possible that you examine the package content, and then manually extract them, so its content gets written to the correct location. This however does _not_ deal with keeping the system's records about installed packages (the package database) consistent with the actually installed software! Again, note that those are in different formats. Is there a reason you cannot upgrade the system to a currently supported version of FreeBSD, and use pkg as intended? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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