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handyman_hank

I have just started using FreeBSD again after some years of staying away from *BSD based systems (with the exception of macOS). I am using FreeBSD versions 11.0 and 12.0. To manage packages, pkg seems rather intuitive, and in fact the commands are pretty similar being pkg update , pkg upgrade , pkg search and pkg autoremove . However, what is the equivalent of apt list ‑‑installed or dpkg ‑‑list | grep '^.i' for having a list of the already...

Originally asked by Rui F Ribeiro on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

pkg_info usage is deprecated, and hence your confusion. In fact, the appropriate command to list the already installed FreeBSD packages is pkg info . From man pkg info Display information about installed packages. $ pkg info | tail python27-2.7.13_1 Interpreted object-oriented programming language readline-6.3.8 Library for editing command lines as they are typed screen-4.5.0_2 Multi-screen window manager sdig-0.45_1 Translate IP/DNS/WINS/MAC address into port description tmux-2.3_2 Terminal Multiplexer unbound-1.6.1 Validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver vm-bhyve-1.1.5 Management system for bhyve virtual machines wget-1.19 Retrieve files from the Net via HTTP(S) and FTP...

Full answer by Rui F Ribeiro: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/360959 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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