If you just want to update your system it's: pkg update pkg upgrade Or just: pkg upgrade This will do mostly what apt-get does (unlike apt and m

If you just want to update your system it's: pkg update pkg upgrade Or just: pkg upgrade This will do mostly what apt-get does (unlike apt and more like many others) it won't start or restart services. You also have stuff like autoremove, clean, which (for checking which package owns a file), etc. See the commands section for pkg: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg#COMMANDS https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg#COMMANDS