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FreeBSD Upgrade Perl 5.8.x to 5.10.x

last updated September 23, 2009 in Categories FreeBSD, Package Management, Perl, UNIX

How do I upgrade Perl version under FreeBSD operating system?

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FreeBSD Update All Installed Ports / Applications

last updated June 11, 2013 in Categories FreeBSD, Networking, Package Management

It is recommended that to keep FreeBSD systems up to date with the latest application security patches installed via ports collection. The yum command line tool is used to install and update software packages under CentOS / RHEL / Fedora Linux. However, I’ve tons of apps installed under FreeBSD. How do I upgrade all packages under FreeBSD?

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FreeBSD: pkg_version: corrupted record (pkgdep line without argument), ignoring

last updated May 24, 2010 in Categories FreeBSD

I‘m using portmaster to manage my ports without external databases. However, when I run the try to run pkg_version -l ‘<', I'm getting the following error:

pkg_version: corrupted record (pkgdep line without argument), ignoring

How do I fix this problem?
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Upgrade FreeBSD 7.x to 7.2 Stable Release

last updated May 3, 2009 in Categories FreeBSD, Networking, Package Management, Security, UNIX

I tried a binary upgrade method, but it failed due to custom kernel installed on my FreeBSD 7.1_p5 64 bit AMD systems. How do I upgrade my FreeBSD server using source code method?

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FreeBSD: Upgrade PHP4 To PHP5

last updated April 2, 2009 in Categories Apache, FreeBSD, FreeBSD Jails (VPS), Lighttpd, Nginx, Package Management

How do I update PHP4 to PHP5 under FreeBSD operating systems?

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