NAME

pkg — a utility for manipulating packages

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

pkg is the package management tool. It is used to manage local packages installed from ports(7) and install/upgrade packages from remote repositories.

To avoid backwards incompatibility issues, the actual pkg(8) tool is not installed in the base system. The first time invoked, pkg will bootstrap the real pkg(8) from a remote repository.

pkg command ...

If pkg(8) is not installed yet, it will be fetched, have its signature verified, installed, and then have the original command forwarded to it. If already installed, the command requested will be forwarded to the real pkg(8).

pkg add [-fy] [-r reponame] pkg.txz

Install pkg(8) from a local package instead of fetching from remote. If signature checking is enabled, then the correct signature file must exist and the signature valid before the package will be installed. If the -f flag is specified, then pkg(8) will be installed regardless if it is already installed. If the -y flag is specified, no confirmation will be asked when bootstrapping pkg(8).

If a reponame has been specified, then the signature configuration for that repository will be used.

pkg -N

Do not bootstrap, just determine if pkg(8) is actually installed or not. Returns 0 and the number of packages installed if it is, otherwise 1.

pkg [-46] bootstrap [-fy] [-r reponame]

Attempt to bootstrap and do not forward anything to pkg(8) after it is installed. With -4 and -6, pkg will force IPv4 or IPv6 respectively to fetch pkg(8) and its signatures as needed. If the -f flag is specified, then pkg(8) will be fetched and installed regardless if it is already installed. If the -y flag is specified, no confirmation will be asked when bootstrapping pkg(8).

If a reponame has been specified, then the configuration for that repository will be used.

OPTIONS

The following options are supported by pkg:

-d, --debug

Show debug information. May be specified more than once to increase the level of detail. When specified twice, fetch(3) debug output is enabled.

CONFIGURATION

Configuration varies in whether it is in a repository configuration file or the global configuration file. The default repository configuration for FreeBSD is stored in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf, and additional repository configuration files will be searched for in REPOS_DIR, or /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos if it is unset.

For bootstrapping, pkg will process all repositories that it finds and use the last enabled repository by default.

Repository configuration is stored in the following format:

FreeBSD: {
  url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
  mirror_type: "srv",
  signature_type: "none",
  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
  enabled: yes
}

url

Refer to PACKAGESITE in ENVIRONMENT

mirror_type

Refer to MIRROR_TYPE in ENVIRONMENT

signature_type

Refer to SIGNATURE_TYPE in ENVIRONMENT

fingerprints

Refer to FINGERPRINTS in ENVIRONMENT

enabled

Defines whether this repository should be used or not. Valid values are yes, true, 1, no, false, 0.

Global configuration can be stored in /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf in the following format:

PACKAGESITE: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
MIRROR_TYPE: "srv",
SIGNATURE_TYPE: "none",
FINGERPRINTS: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES: "yes"
REPOS_DIR: ["/etc/pkg", "/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos"]

Reference ENVIRONMENT for each variable.

ENVIRONMENT

The following environment variables can be set to override the settings from the pkg.conf file used.

MIRROR_TYPE

This defines which mirror type should be used. Valid values are SRV, HTTP, NONE.

ABI

This defines the ABI for the package to be installed. Default ABI is determined from /bin/sh.

ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES

If set, no confirmation will be asked when bootstrapping pkg(8).

SIGNATURE_TYPE

If set to FINGERPRINTS then a signature will be required and validated against known certificate fingerprints when bootstrapping pkg(8).

FINGERPRINTS

If SIGNATURE_TYPE is set to FINGERPRINTS this value should be set to the directory path where known fingerprints are located.

PACKAGESITE

The URL that pkg(8) and other packages will be fetched from.

REPOS_DIR

Comma-separated list of directories that should be searched for repository configuration files.

FILES

Configuration is read from the files in the listed order. This path can be changed by setting REPOS_DIR. The last enabled repository is the one used for bootstrapping pkg(8).

/usr/local/etc/pkg.conf

 

/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf

 

/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/*.conf

 

EXAMPLES

Some examples are listed here. The full list of available commands are available in pkg(8) once it is bootstrapped.

Search for a package:

Install a package:

List installed packages:

Upgrade from remote repository:

List non-automatic packages:

List automatic packages:

Delete an installed package:

Remove unneeded dependencies:

Change a package from automatic to non-automatic, which will prevent pkg-autoremove(8) from removing it:

Change a package from non-automatic to automatic, which will make pkg-autoremove(8) allow it be removed once nothing depends on it:

Create package file from an installed package:

Determine which package installed a file:

Audit installed packages for security advisories:

Check installed packages for checksum mismatches:

Check for missing dependencies:

Fetch a package for a different FreeBSD version, along with all its dependencies:

SEE ALSO

ports(7), pkg(8)

HISTORY

The pkg command first appeared in FreeBSD 9.1. It became the default package tool in FreeBSD 10.0, replacing the pkg_install suite of tools pkg_add(1), pkg_info(1) and pkg_create(1).