Issues Bootstrapping pkg
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SimpleYellowShirt · 2023-04-16 04:08

Im new to BSD, but have been using Linux professionally for 10 years
now. I have run into a strange issue when trying to bootstrap pkg. I
tested everything out in a VM on my Linux desktop before trying on my
Lenovo T15 laptop. I run:


    pkg update
    The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
    Do you want to fetch and install it now: y
    Bootstrapping pkg from
pkg+http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/quarterly, Please wait...

The machine just hangs there at Please wait... I can ping Google and
pkg.freebsd.org. Any Idea whats going on?

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grahamperrin · 2023-04-16 05:35

> a VM

Which software?

If VirtualBox: check that the virtual network adapter has the
appropriate preference (typically NAT).

IIRC with a wrong preference I could ping but not browse the web, and
so on.

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[deleted] · 2023-04-16 07:39

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[deleted] · 2023-04-16 08:13

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yuripv79 · 2023-04-16 09:20

It could be the mirror auto-selected for you (based on location) is
misbehaving or just swamped by everyone upgrading to 13.2; try using
some other, the list is at the bottom of
[pkg.FreeBSD.org](http://pkg.freebsd.org/) ("Other mirrors").

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thowd22 · 2023-04-16 14:32

I was using KVM on my Linux desktop to test out bsd for the past few
days. The error is coming from a fresh install on my laptop.

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SimpleYellowShirt · 2023-04-16 15:12

pkg-static does not seem to be a command on my fresh install

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SimpleYellowShirt · 2023-04-16 15:12

I tried several different ones and no luck

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[deleted] · 2023-04-16 15:23

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yuripv79 · 2023-04-16 15:34

OK, sorry then, I had one selected for me that I was getting ~1KBps
downloads from, so even boostrapping the pkg would take hours :)

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grahamperrin · 2023-04-16 17:15

Does [fetch\(1\)](https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fetch&sekt
ion=1&manpath=freebsd-release) work?

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