Hi, I would like to install jq - the json parsing utility - onto my opnsense box, as it would allow me to process various JSON data sources found therein. It seems it's not in the package repositories provided by OPN sense, so I guess I have to somehow build it manually. How would I go about that? Could I request that this tool be added to a future version of opnsense repositories?
JQ is here: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/ and is common in linux distributions. There seem to be some FreeBSD sources for it and a contemporary port as well.
Thanks
You go to github tools repo, open an issue for adding textproc/jq :)
If it doesn't get accepted install a FreeBSD 11.2 with amd64 (if you use 64 bit) and fetch the build tools:
https://github.com/opnsense/tools
Then you can build your own compatible pkg.
You can also build it directly on OPNsense as it is shipping all the required tools or has them in the repository.