FreeBSD Error: Unknown Group Wheel

Posted December 17th, 2008 by Matt Shadbolt

I’ve just run across an error when trying to install MySQL and Apache22 that was causing the installation to fail.

If you receive the error “Unknown Group Wheel” try this.

Open the file /etc/group in your favourite text editor. Enter the following line at the next free line:

wheel:*:0:root

Save the file and try again. Worked perfectly for me.

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