Freebsd – Install a package and all its dependencies without a confirmation prompt with FreeBSD pkg

pkg relies on various metadata files that you don't have on your local machine, because they are downloaded from a configured package repository. I think the best solution here is to revert to using the default FreeBSD repo, and simply use the pkg add command, which will attempt to install a package from a local package archive file, instead of pkg install, which will search your configured repos and attempt to install a package from a remote source.

Incidentally, you can also use pkg fetch to download package archive files from a configured repo, for installation later using pkg add:

# pkg fetch -d zsh

# pkg add /var/cache/pkg/zsh-5.0.7_2.txz

The -d flag to pkg fetch tells pkg to download any dependencies that may be required to successfully install the named package. Note that by default, packages downloaded in this manner are stashed in /var/cache/pkg, and you'll need to include the path to the archive file when you call pkg add.

The second state in the dpkg -l output is the selection, i.e., the wanted state. This is mostly used by dselect these days, but it can also be used by dpkg --set-selections. To get from the current state to the selection, you need something that even looks at the selection, which aptitude and apt don't do by default.

Apt has an option to do that, though. Just run:

apt-get dselect-upgrade

This should make the wanted modifications.

I'm not sure why packages were left in an id state. Maybe the uninstall didn't finish successfully?