So....I have installed the supposedly latest copy of GhostBSD and up to now have found it to be to my liking. My goal is/was to install it on all of our home/office computers here in order to eventually completely dump Windows.

However, this evening I ran into what I consider to be a problem: first, I wanted to upgrade this installation which used FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE to FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p4.

Attempting to use freebsd-update, I find that that executable does not exist on this system.

Then I thought I would try to down load the ports collection and invoked portsnap fetch.

Portsnap doesn't exist on this system either.

THEN, I tried svn checkout https://svn.freebsd,org/ports/head and got a "no route to hose" message, although I can go directly to that site on my Firefox.

So, what gives here?

Is there simply no way to update/upgrade this system?

What about the ports?

Ken Gordon

OK Ken,
First this is GhostBSD and has a collection of ports separate from Free-BSD. You will break the distro if you update elsewhere.
The ports for THIS distro exist, just not at free-BSD.
To fetch the ports for the first time, use the following command:
# sudo git clone https://github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-ports
in the /usr/ports directory.
To enable make of ports you may require to add:
llvm
os-generic-userland-devtools
os-generic-userland-lib32
os-generic-userland-lib32-development
To update an existing local ports directory:
# cd /usr/ports or the directory of a particular port
# sudo git pull

Steve

Thanks. Much appreciated.

Ken Gordon