# Is anyone using CrowdSec FreeBSD packages?

**URL:** <https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/is-anyone-using-crowdsec-freebsd-packages/237>\
**Category:** crowdsec\
**Created:** [August 23, 2021, 9:23am UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/is-anyone-using-crowdsec-freebsd-packages/237 "2021-08-23T09:23:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![klausagnoletti](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/discourse.crowdsec.net/klausagnoletti/32/201_2.png) [@klausagnoletti](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/u/klausagnoletti)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 9:23am UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/is-anyone-using-crowdsec-freebsd-packages/237/1 "2021-08-23T09:23:26Z")

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Hi

I’m CrowdSec’s new community manager, Klaus. This weekend I tried playing with the FreeBSD packages for CrowdSec and I’ve had a bit of problems getting it to work. So I wondered if anyone here has tried it and has some valuable feedback for the team? Both in terms of documentation and stability.

Thanks

/klaus

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**Author:** ![Rogacz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/discourse.crowdsec.net/rogacz/32/231_2.png) [@Rogacz](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/u/Rogacz)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 7:44pm UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/is-anyone-using-crowdsec-freebsd-packages/237/2 "2021-12-22T19:44:38Z")

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Hi Klaus  
I know it old topic but I just start using CrowdSec on FreeBSD 13.0 amd64  
and packages doesn’t work at all

```auto
/ ❯ pkg install security/crowdsec                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'security/crowdsec' have been found in the repositories

```

my config

```auto
Repositories:
  FreeBSD: {
    url : "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest",
    enabled : yes,
    priority : 0,
    mirror_type : "SRV",
    signature_type : "FINGERPRINTS",
    fingerprints : "/usr/share/keys/pkg"
  }

```

I mange to build it from ports but the version is outdated, it’s 1.2.1 for crowdsec and 0.0.17 for cs-firewall-bouncer

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**Author:** ![mmetc](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/discourse.crowdsec.net/mmetc/32/233_2.png) [@mmetc](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/u/mmetc)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 9:12am UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/is-anyone-using-crowdsec-freebsd-packages/237/3 "2021-12-23T09:12:53Z")

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Hi @Rogacz !

Good news, I have submitted a patch for v1.2.2 and 0.0.20, which has not been committed to the ports tree yet.

You can built it from this tag: [Release v1.2.2-v0.0.20 · crowdsecurity/packaging-freebsd · GitHub](https://github.com/crowdsecurity/packaging-freebsd/releases/tag/v1.2.2-v0.0.20)

To make it short, 1.2.1 is not packaged with dependencies, so it cannot be built as official .pkg. Just skip it

You can check here [Install CrowdSec (FreeBSD) | CrowdSec](https://doc.crowdsec.net/docs/next/getting_started/install_crowdsec_freebsd)

if something is missing or unclear, please let me know

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**Author:** ![klausagnoletti](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/discourse.crowdsec.net/klausagnoletti/32/201_2.png) [@klausagnoletti](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/u/klausagnoletti)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 10:05am UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/is-anyone-using-crowdsec-freebsd-packages/237/4 "2021-12-23T10:05:52Z")

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In case you want try the cscli metabase dashboard out you shoud try installing [GitHub - mmetc/freebsd-metabase at log4j-fix](https://github.com/mmetc/freebsd-metabase/tree/log4j-fix) (the FreeBSD package of metabase has critical vulnerabilities). And also the cscli dashboard command uses Docker (which is broken on FreeBSD). @mmetc is currently preparing a doc page on it.

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**Author:** ![Rogacz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/discourse.crowdsec.net/rogacz/32/231_2.png) [@Rogacz](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/u/Rogacz)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 2:10pm UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/is-anyone-using-crowdsec-freebsd-packages/237/5 "2021-12-23T14:10:07Z")

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Thanks a lot, I have build it from the tag and now it’s up to date.