On Wed 12 Feb 22:03, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Any pkg command gets: > > > The package management tool is not yet installed on your system. > > > Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: > > > but trying to do so gets: the most recent version of pkg-2.0.5 is > > already installed > > > > sudo pkg bootstrap -f > > > > DES > > -- > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@freebsd.org > > > > Thanks to all of you for suggestions. DES, you hit the jackpot. Since > there is no man page for the pkg backup command, I was unaware of the -f > option, though I should have, at least, thought to try . > As it turned out, I did not need to restore the the db. Just get pkg > reinstalled.
pkg(7) which is /usr/sbin/pkg documents the bootstrap (and the -f) pkg(8) provided by the pkg package also document bootstrap and the -f. > > I am still confused as to the sqlite DB that I know I have looked at in the > past. I thought that it was in /var/db/pkg, but it is not there... just > distfiles. I figure that the database has to be somewhere. It is in /var/db/pkg/local.sqlite Best regards, BApt
