Thank you, I ran pkg update && pkg upgrade and service nodebb restart and now nodebb is able to install plugins.

The redis issue seems to be more a pkg related issue. Searching around, it seems it does happen sometimes, and pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd fixes it.

Thank you once again, this is a great service.

It seems I am unable to pull in plugins, as nodebb does not find npm.

Command failed: /bin/sh -c npm install [email protected] /bin/sh: npm: not found

But npm is installed of course:

root@fc:~ # whereis npm
npm: /usr/local/bin/npm /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/man/man1/npm.1.gz

root@fc:~ # npm --version
2.15.6

This is if I try to install npm:

root@fc:~ # pkg install npm
Updating nodebb repository catalogue...
nodebb repository is up-to-date.
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
The following 3 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
	npm: 3.9.2 [FreeBSD]
	node: 6.7.0 [FreeBSD]
	c-ares: 1.11.0 [FreeBSD]

Number of packages to be installed: 3

The process will require 26 MiB more space.
6 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
Fetching npm-3.9.2.txz: 100%    2 MiB   2.2MB/s    00:01
Fetching node-6.7.0.txz: 100%    4 MiB   3.8MB/s    00:01
Fetching c-ares-1.11.0.txz: 100%  118 KiB 120.8kB/s    00:01
Checking integrity... done (2 conflicting)
  - npm-3.9.2 [FreeBSD] conflicts with npm2-2.15.6 [installed] on /usr/local/bin/npm
  - node-6.7.0 [FreeBSD] conflicts with node4-4.6.0 [installed] on /usr/local/bin/node
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Conflicts with the existing packages have been found.
One more solver iteration is needed to resolve them.
The following 6 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

Installed packages to be REMOVED:
	node4-4.6.0
	nodebb-devel-1.2.0
	npm2-2.15.6

New packages to be INSTALLED:
	c-ares: 1.11.0 [FreeBSD]
	node: 6.7.0 [FreeBSD]
	npm: 3.9.2 [FreeBSD]

Number of packages to be removed: 3
Number of packages to be installed: 3

The operation will free 64 MiB.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: n

That was easier that I thought.

Installation had a little glitch, when creating user 'nodebb' and 'redis, i.e.:

"pw: user 'redis' disappeared during update"

which I fixed with:

pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd

I have now NodeBB v1.2.0 installed on a dedicated server, for now served from port 4567.

Install time: less than 10 minutes.

Thank you!