Install nano on pfSense



 pkg_add -r ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/nano.tbz  


or


on terminal
ssh to your pfsense

then, copy paste the code above
and press enter

then, try nano by typing nano

congrats, you will get nano editor on pfsense


2 comments:

  1. When I use the top method, I get

    $ pkg_add -r ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/nano.tbz
    tar: Failed to set default locale
    tar: Failed to set default localetar: Failed to set default locale

    pkg_add: warning: package 'nano-2.2.4_1' requires 'libiconv-1.13.1_1', but 'libiconv-1.14_1' is installed
    pkg_add: warning: package 'nano-2.2.4_1' requires 'gettext-0.18_1', but 'gettext-0.18.3' is installed

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  2. For some reason the ftp:// didn't work. I had to use http:// the complete command is:

    pkg_add -r http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/nano.tbz

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