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It's not unusual for a Tier 1 platform to have no package for a wanted desktop environment. Two platforms are at this tier:
- aarch64 – 64-bit ARMv8
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/ freebsd-de-packages.md
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June 24, 2025 04:29
Desktop environments: FreeBSD Project-provided packages in the ports collection
grahamperrin
/ 1500043-007-base-ports.txt
Created
May 25, 2025 08:14
FreeBSD: fixed broken icons in Geany, GIMP, HandBrake, PDF Arranger, Remmina, and various other applications
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| root@mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd:~ # bectl list -c creation | tail -n 6 | |
| 1500043-002-base - - 1.71G 2025-05-16 12:34 | |
| 1500043-003-base - - 1.74G 2025-05-20 11:00 | |
| 1500043-004-base - - 1.66G 2025-05-21 05:50 | |
| 1500043-005-base R /tmp/down 240G 2025-05-23 18:45 | |
| 1500043-007-base-firefox N / 8.88G 2025-05-25 06:08 | |
| 1500043-008-base - - 1.18G 2025-05-25 06:43 | |
| root@mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd:~ # bectl umount 1500043-005-base | |
| root@mowa219-gjp4-zbook-freebsd:~ # pkg iinfo gobject | |
| gobject-introspection-1.84.0,1 |
grahamperrin
/ somesystems.md
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June 19, 2025 16:26
FreeBSD, GhostBSD, NomadBSD, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, KDE Plasma
grahamperrin
/ 2025-04-20-19-08-gg2.5pro-experimental.md
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April 22, 2025 11:24
General troubleshooting advice for FreeBSD
I fed a forty-word paragraph to Google Gemini 2.5 Pro (Experimental) on the evening of Sunday 20th April. Twenty of the forty:
Where can I find general troubleshooting advice for FreeBSD? Emphasis on: general. … I'm looking for the best unofficial resources. Thanks.
Gemini offered a 508-word response. I:
- reduced it to around 330 (not counting
*or…as words) - added a link to the third edition (2018) of Absolute FreeBSD
grahamperrin
/ 2025-04-13-01-59-partial-typescript.txt
Created
April 18, 2025 09:48
A FreeBSD pkg session, 2025-04-13 01:59 – GhostBSD 25.01-R14.2p2 (an incomplete record, copied from termbin.com)
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| Script started on Sun Apr 13 01:59:44 2025 | |
| You have mail. | |
| root@mowa219-gjp4-ghostbsd-14-vm:~ # echo $SHELL | |
| /bin/csh | |
| root@mowa219-gjp4-ghostbsd-14-vm:~ # date ; uptime | |
| Sun Apr 13 01:59:52 BST 2025 | |
| 1:59AM up 3 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.14, 0.24, 0.12 | |
| root@mowa219-gjp4-ghostbsd-14-vm:~ # ghostbsd-version |
grahamperrin
/ 2025-04-12-20-16-typescript.txt
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April 18, 2025 09:40
A FreeBSD pkg session, 2025-04-12 20:16 – pkg 2.0.5 (locked), GhostBSD 24.10.1
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| Script started on Sat Apr 12 20:16:09 2025 | |
| You have mail. | |
| root@mowa219-gjp4-ghostbsd-14-vm:~ # echo $SHELL | |
| /bin/csh | |
| root@mowa219-gjp4-ghostbsd-14-vm:~ # date ; uptime | |
| Sat Apr 12 20:16:19 BST 2025 | |
| 8:16PM up 14 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.34, 0.15, 0.08 | |
| root@mowa219-gjp4-ghostbsd-14-vm:~ # ghostbsd-version | |
| 24.10.1 | |
| root@mowa219-gjp4-ghostbsd-14-vm:~ # freebsd-version -kru |
grahamperrin
/ 2025-04-13-12-15-typescript.txt
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April 18, 2025 09:03
A FreeBSD pkg session, 2025-04-13 12:15 – pkg 2.0.5 (locked), GhostBSD 25.01-R14.2p2
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| Script started on Sun Apr 13 12:15:30 2025 | |
| You have mail. | |
| root@mowa219-gjp4-ghostbsd-14-vm:~ # echo $SHELL | |
| /bin/csh | |
| root@mowa219-gjp4-ghostbsd-14-vm:~ # date ; uptime | |
| Sun Apr 13 12:15:40 BST 2025 | |
| 12:15PM up 2 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.24, 0.16, 0.07 | |
| root@mowa219-gjp4-ghostbsd-14-vm:~ # ghostbsd-version | |
| 25.01-R14.2p2 | |
| root@mowa219-gjp4-ghostbsd-14-vm:~ # freebsd-version -kru |
grahamperrin
/ 2025-04-13-08-18-typescript.txt
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April 18, 2025 09:04
A FreeBSD pkg session, 2025-04-13 08:18 – pkg 2.0.5 (locked), GhostBSD 24.10.1
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| Script started on Sun Apr 13 08:18:53 2025 | |
| You have mail. | |
| root@mowa219-gjp4-ghostbsd-14-vm:~ # echo $SHELL | |
| /bin/csh | |
| root@mowa219-gjp4-ghostbsd-14-vm:~ # date ; uptime | |
| Sun Apr 13 08:19:04 BST 2025 | |
| 8:19AM up 8 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.13, 0.08, 0.02 | |
| root@mowa219-gjp4-ghostbsd-14-vm:~ # pkg -v |
grahamperrin
/ wine-freebsd-i386-wine-pkg-current-amd64.txt
Created
January 12, 2025 04:35
Wine on FreeBSD: upgrading ~/.i386-wine-pkg on FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT on AMD64 – not on i386
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| grahamperrin:~ % echo $SHELL | |
| /bin/tcsh | |
| grahamperrin:~ % uname -mKU | |
| amd64 1500030 1500030 | |
| grahamperrin:~ % setenv ABI FreeBSD:15:i386 | |
| grahamperrin:~ % /usr/bin/time -h pkg -o ABI_FILE=/usr/lib32/libc.so.7 -o INSTALL_AS_USER=true -o RUN_SCRIPTS=false --rootdir /home/grahamperrin/.i386-wine-pkg upgrade --fetch-only --quiet --yes --repository FreeBSD-ports-i386 | |
| Conflicts with the existing packages have been found. | |
| One more solver iteration is needed to resolve them. | |
| 1m3.60s real 7.07s user 1.75s sys | |
| grahamperrin:~ % pkg -o ABI_FILE=/usr/lib32/libc.so.7 -o INSTALL_AS_USER=true -o RUN_SCRIPTS=false -r /home/grahamperrin/.i386-wine-pkg upgrade -F -r FreeBSD-ports-i386 Updating FreeBSD-ports-i386 repository catalogue... |
grahamperrin
/ 2024-12-22_0730-mac-typescript.txt
Created
December 22, 2024 18:30
2024-12-22 FreeBSD pkgbase upgrade from 14.2-RELEASE to 15.0-CURRENT, part two
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| Script started on Sun Dec 22 07:30:24 2024 | |
| You have mail. | |
| root@fourteen-pkgbase:~ # echo $SHELL | |
| /bin/tcsh | |
| root@fourteen-pkgbase:~ # date ; uptime | |
| Sun Dec 22 07:30:30 GMT 2024 | |
| 7:30AM up 6 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.21, 0.12, 0.05 | |
| root@fourteen-pkgbase:~ # echo $EDITOR | |
| vi | |
| root@fourteen-pkgbase:~ # grep nano /etc/csh.cshrc |
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