I don’t seem to be able to install ports on my FreeBSD droplet. Does the default user have sudo / access rights to install?
Also, I couldn’t see packages I was looking for.
These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.
Try portsnap fetch extract update
I’ve got sudo access, but I don’t actually see the ports directory under /usr
It could be that root access is there but without
sudo
, trysu -
and see whether it gets youroot
shell.