pkg

The package management tool for FreeBSD.

Essential manual pages:

• pkg(7) – integral to FreeBSD, primarily for bootstrapping
• pkg(8) – best known, with features available as a result of bootstrapping.

Hint:

• pkg-alias(8) is amongst the valuable pages that are sometimes overlooked.

FreshPorts listing:

• https://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/pkg/

In GitHub:

• https://github.com/freebsd/pkg
• includes issues and pull requests (PRs) that are complementary to bug reports (BRs) in Bugzilla, which can be found and created through FreshPorts.

Historically: pkg_info, pkg_create and pkg_add were used for registration of local packages and provision of remote packages.

pkgng provided a new generation (ng) of commands. Eventually, pkgng became known as pkg.