From time to time I’m doing some stuff on FreeBSD. I still like it for its simplicity (I’m old and Linux is progressing way to fast ;-).

I’m keeping some notes how to set up FreeBSD manually in this blog post. For newer versions of FreeBSD I’ll create a new post.

Disadvantages:

  • manual setup

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After a fresh install, we first apply latest updates to the current FreeBSD version.

# freebsd-update fetch install
# shutdown -r now

# pkg
The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]:

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# pkg install sudo

# vi /usr/local/etc/sudoers
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

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# pkg install bash zsh

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# adduser
Username: gogo
Full name:
Uid (Leave empty for default):
Login group [gogo]: wheel
Login group is wheel. Invite gogo into other groups? []: wheel
Login class [default]:
Shell (sh csh tcsh bash rbash zsh rzsh nologin) [sh]: zsh
Home directory [/home/gogo]:
Home directory permissions (Leave empty for default):
Use password-based authentication? [yes]
Use an empty password? (yes/no) [no]:
Use a random password? (yes/no) [no]:
Enter password:
Enter password again:
Lock out the account after creation? [no]:
Username   : gogo
Password   : *****
Full name  :
uid        : 1001
Class      :
Groups     : wheel
Home       : /home/gogo
Home Mode  :
Shell      : /usr/local/bin/zsh
Locked     : no
Ok? (yes/no): yes
adduser: INFO: Successfully added (gogo) to the user database.
Add another user? (yes/no): no
Goodbye!

Please log in to the new user from now on.

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More comfort:

$ sudo pkg install vim-console tmux

For development in general:

$ sudo pkg install git

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Compilation dependencies:

pkg install gmake

$ git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
$ git clone https://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build

$ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshenv
$ echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.zshenv

Afterwards you need to relogin to your user account.

Now we can install a rather new Ruby version:

$ rbenv install --list

$ rbenv install 2.7.3
$ rbenv global 2.7.3

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Compilation dependencies (sqlite3):

pkg install sqlite3 node yarn

gem install rails

bundle config build.sqlite3 --with-sqlite3-include=/usr/local/include --with-sqlite3-lib=/usr/local/lib

rails new myapp
cd myapp
bin/rails server

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