Desktop environments: FreeBSD Project-provided packages in the ports collection

freebsd-de-packages.md

Package availability

FreshPorts provides tables, and more.

Desktop environments, display managers, Sway, X.Org

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
• amd64 – 64-bit x86.

Tables in FreshPorts:

• GNOME
• GNOME Display Manager (GDM)
• KDE Plasma and applications
• MATE
• SDDM
• Sway
• X.Org
• Xfce.

FreeBSD-kmods

FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE is preconfigured to use a FreeBSD-kmods repo, for up-to-date versions of commonly-used non-base kernel modules that have unstable kernel interfaces.

In simple terms:

• using a FreeBSD-kmods repo may avoid problems with inferior versions of modules

– modules in GPU-related packages such as graphics/drm-61-kmod.

To tell which packages are in the repo for your installation of FreeBSD:

pkg search --repository FreeBSD-kmods --quiet --glob '*'

Note

FreeBSD-kmods does not include a package of drm-kmod:

• it's a meta-port
• none of the three files in its pkg-plist is a kernel module.

pkg

If version 2.2.0 of pkg is not packaged for your platform, and if you need a package from a FreeBSD-kmods repo, then please be prepared to run:

pkg upgrade --repository FreeBSD-kmods

To discover the reason for failure, ignorance, or skip, of any package

https://people.freebsd.org/~grahamperrin/pkg-status/

If you have any question about discoveries, please ask here:

• Using package build records at pkg-status.freebsd.org

Thank you