{"id":802,"date":"2013-01-10T16:59:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T16:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2014-03-07T09:42:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T09:42:18","slug":"installing-extra-packages-on-pfsense-2-0-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/2013\/installing-extra-packages-on-pfsense-2-0-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing extra packages on pfSense 2.0.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adding extra packages to pfsense is simple.<\/p>\n<p>First enable SSH in <code>System > Advanced<\/code> and connect to your pfSense box using your favourite SSH client. Once connected choose 8 to open a shell.<\/p>\n<p>Once in a shell add a FreeBSD repository to the PACKAGESITE environment variable like,<\/p>\n<pre class=\"nums:false lang:sh decode:true \" >setenv PACKAGESITE http:\/\/ftp-archive.freebsd.org\/pub\/FreeBSD-Archive\/ports\/`uname -m`\/packages-8.1-release\/Latest\/<\/pre>\n<p>You may want to add this command to \/root\/.tcshrc so its set each time you login.<\/p>\n<p>Now you can add packages from the FreeBSD8 repository using <code>pkg_add -r [name]<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>pkg_add -r iftop<br \/>\npkg_add -r nano<br \/>\npkg_add -r freecolor<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Find the full list of packages at <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp-archive.freebsd.org\/pub\/FreeBSD-Archive\/ports\/i386\/packages-8.1-release\/Latest\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ftp-archive.freebsd.org\/pub\/FreeBSD-Archive\/ports\/i386\/packages-8.1-release\/Latest\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Update<\/h2>\n<p>After installing a new package, run the command <code>rehash<\/code> in order for it to be usable from the command-line (or log off and back on again).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding extra packages to pfsense is simple. First enable SSH in System > Advanced and connect to your pfSense box using your favourite SSH client. Once connected choose 8 to open a shell. Once in a shell add a FreeBSD repository to the PACKAGESITE environment variable like, setenv PACKAGESITE http:\/\/ftp-archive.freebsd.org\/pub\/FreeBSD-Archive\/ports\/`uname -m`\/packages-8.1-release\/Latest\/ You may want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[183,182],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pfsense","tag-freebsd","tag-pfsense-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}