PKG(8)

NAME
pkg, pkg-static - a utility for manipulating packages

SYNOPSIS
pkg [-v] [-d] [-l] [-N] [-c <chroot path>] [-C <configuration file>] [-R <repository configuration directory>] <command> <flags>

pkg [--version] [--debug] [--list] [-N] [--jail <jail name or id> | --chroot <chroot path>] [--config <configuration file>] [--repo-conf-dir <repository configuration directory>] <command> <flags>

DESCRIPTION
provides an interface for manipulating packages - registering, adding, removing and upgrading of packages. pkg-static is a statically linked variant of pkg typically only used for the initial installation of pkg. There are some differences in functionality. See pkg.conf(5) for details.

OPTIONS
The following options are supported by pkg:

-v, --version
    Displays the current version of pkg

-d, --debug
    Show debug information

-l, --list
    List all the available command names, and exit without performing any other action. The -v option takes precedence over -l but -l will override any other command line arguments.

-o <option=value>, --option <option=value>
    Set configuration option for pkg from the command line. Options that are set from the environment are redefined. It is permitted to specify this option multiple times.

-N  Activation status check mode. Prevent pkg from automatically creating or initializing the sqlite database in /var/db/pkg/local.sqlite if it does not already exist.

    Prevent pkg from performing any actions if no packages are currently installed, on the basis that a correctly initialised system using pkg will always have at least the pkg package itself registered.

    If used without any other arguments, pkg -N will run the sanity tests and if successful print out a short message showing how many packages are currently installed. The exit status should be a reliable indication of whether a system is configured to use pkg as its package management system or not.

    Example usage:

          if pkg -N >/dev/null 2>&1; then
            # pkgng-specifics
          else
            # pkg_install-specifics
          fi

    The -N flag was first released in the /usr/sbin/pkg bootstrapper in FreeBSD 8.4, but was missing from FreeBSD 9.1. It may not be enough to just call pkg -N, as the bootstrapper may be invoked, or an error returned from pkg. The following script is the safest way to detect if pkg is installed and activated:

          if TMPDIR=/dev/null ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=yes \
               PACKAGESITE=file:///nonexistent \
               pkg info -x 'pkg(-devel)?$' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
            # pkgng-specifics
          else
            # pkg_install-specifics
          fi

-c <chroot path>, --chroot <chroot path>
    pkg will chroot in the <chroot path> Environment

-C <configuration file>, --config <configuration file>
    pkg will use the specified file as a configuration file

-R <repo conf dir>, --repo-conf-dir <repo conf dir>
    pkg will search the directory for per-repository configuration files. This overrides any value of REPOS_DIR specified in the main configuration file.

COMMANDS
The following commands are supported by pkg:

help command
    Display usage information of the specified command.

add Install a package from either a local source or a remote one.

    When installing from remote source you need to specify the protocol to use when fetching the package.

    Currently supported protocols are FTP, HTTP and HTTPS.

annotate
    Add, modify or delete tag-value style annotations on packages.

audit
    Audits installed packages against known vulnerabilities.

autoremove
    Delete packages which were automatically installed as dependencies and are not required any more.

backup
    Dump the local package database to a file specified on the command-line.

bootstrap
    This is for compatibility with the pkg(7) bootstrapper. If pkg is already installed, nothing is done.

    If invoked with the -f flag an attempt will be made to reinstall pkg from remote repository. This is not supported on FreeBSD 8.3 as it did not have pkg(7).

check
    Sanity checks installed packages.

clean
    Cleans the local cache of fetched remote packages.

convert
    Convert to and from the old pkg_add(1) format.

create
    Create a package

delete
    Delete a package from the database and the system.

fetch
    Fetches packages from a remote repository.

info
    Display information about installed packages.

install
    Install a package from a remote package repository. If a package is found in more than one remote repository, then installation happens from the first one. Downloading a package is tried from each package repository in turn, until the package is successfully fetched.

lock
    Prevent modification or deletion of a package.

plugins
    List the available plugins.

query
    Query information about installed packages.

register
    Register a package in the database.

repo
    Create a local package repository for remote usage.

rquery
    Query information for remote repositories.

search
    Search for the given pattern in the remote package repositories.

set Modify information in the installed database.

shell
    Fires up a sqlite shell to the local or remote database. Extreme care should be taken when using this command.

shlib
    Displays which packages link to a specific shared library.

stats
    Display package database statistics.

unlock
    Unlocks packages, allowing them to be modified or deleted

update
    Update the available remote repositories as listed in pkg.conf(5).

updating
    Displays UPDATING entries of installed packages.

upgrade
    Upgrade a package to a newer version.

version
    Summarize installed versions of packages.

which
    Query the database for package(s) that installed a specific file.

ENVIRONMENT
The list of environment variables that affect the execution of pkg is in pkg.conf(5).

FILES
See pkg.conf(5).

EXAMPLES
Search for a package:
    $ pkg search perl

Install a package:
    Installing must specify a unique origin or version otherwise it will try installing all matches.

    % pkg install perl-5.14

List installed packages:
    $ pkg info

Upgrade from remote repository:
    % pkg upgrade

Change the origin for an installed package:
    % pkg set -o lang/perl5.12:lang/perl5.14
    % pkg install -Rf lang/perl5.14

List non-automatic packages:
    $ pkg query -e '%a = 0' %o

List automatic packages:
    $ pkg query -e '%a = 1' %o

Delete an installed package:
    % pkg delete perl-5.14

Remove unneeded dependencies:
    % pkg autoremove

Change a package from automatic to non-automatic, which will prevent autoremove from removing it:
    % pkg set -A 0 perl-5.14

Change a package from non-automatic to automatic, which will make autoremove allow it be removed once nothing depends on it:
    % pkg set -A 1 perl-5.14

Create package file from an installed package:
    % pkg create -o /usr/ports/packages/All perl-5.14

Determine which package installed a file:
    $ pkg which /usr/local/bin/perl

Audit installed packages for security advisories:
    $ pkg audit

Check installed packages for checksum mismatches:
    # pkg check -s -a

Check for missing dependencies:
    # pkg check -d -a

SEE ALSO
SBUF(9), elf(3), fetch(3), libarchive(3), pkg_printf(3), pkg_repos(3), pkg-repository(5), pkg.conf(5), pkg-add(8), pkg-annotate(8), pkg-audit(8), pkg-autoremove(8), pkg-backup(8), pkg-check(8), pkg-clean(8), pkg-config(8), pkg-convert(8), pkg-create(8), pkg-delete(8), pkg-fetch(8), pkg-info(8), pkg-install(8), pkg-lock(8), pkg-query(8), pkg-register(8), pkg-repo(8), pkg-rquery(8), pkg-search(8), pkg-set(8), pkg-shell(8), pkg-shlib(8), pkg-ssh(8), pkg-stats(8), pkg-update(8), pkg-updating(8), pkg-upgrade(8), pkg-version(8), pkg-which(8)

To build your own package set for one or multiple servers see ports-mgmt/poudriere

HISTORY
The pkg command first appeared in FreeBSD 9.1.

AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Julien Laffaye <jlaffaye@FreeBSD.org> Philippe Pepiot <phil@philpep.org> Will Andrews <will@FreeBSD.org> Marin Atanasov Nikolov <dnaeon@gmail.com> Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> Alberto Villa <avilla@FreeBSD.org> Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org> Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net> Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> Romain Tarti`ere <romain@FreeBSD.org> Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod@FreeBSD.org> Alexandre Perrin <alex@kaworu.ch>

BUGS
See the issue tracker at https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues

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