Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:01:26 +0100 From: "Ramiro Aceves" <ea1abz@wanadoo.es> To: "Donald J. O'Neill" <donaldj1066@fastmail.fm>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Questions about ports Message-ID: <008b01c51900$259037b0$15cf589d@eis.uva.es> References: <4219D0E9.4060907@wanadoo.es> <200502220959.00684.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "Ramiro Aceves" <ea1abz@wanadoo.es> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:59 PM Subject: Re: Questions about ports > On Monday 21 February 2005 06:15 am, Ramiro Aceves wrote: > > Hello FreeBSD friends > > > > I have a question about ports. I have installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a AMD > > 400 MHz machine with 64 MB RAM, so it is not a fast machine for > > compiling big programs! :-). The problem I am going to tell you, > > happened to me several weeks ago into another slower machine (Pentium > > 75 in which there is no OS now), and I can not remember some details, > > so I am sorry if I am not too acurate. I suppose I will run into > > this problem again with the AMD machine so I would like to understand > > it better. > > > > > > 1- I installed mozilla 1.7.2-2,2 from the packages on the CDROM. > > 2- I cvsuped the ports collection. > > 3- I installed and compiled some programs from the updated ports > > collection. 4- Mozilla did not work anymore cause in needs atk-1.6.1. > > > > Mozilla in the package is 1.7.2_2,2 and depends on atk-1.6.1 > > If I install programs from the updated ports tree, atk-1.8.0 was > > installed for another port and atk-1.6.1 removed, but mozilla on the > > CDROM package wants atk-1.6.1. So, If I try to install again from the > > cdrom, it cant cause atk-1.8.0 is installed. > > > > Compilling mozilla in this slow machine is not reasonable, so: > > > > Can I download a more updated mozilla package acording to my updated > > ports collection? I have browsed pkg_add man pages and believe that > > the environment variables PACKAGESITE and PACKAGEROOT need to be set > > so that pkg_add can fetch more updated packages. Am I right? Where > > should they point to? > > > > I will use pkg_add only for big programs, and I can use the ports > > collectio to compile the little ones. > > > > Many thanks. > > > > Ramiro. > > > > Ramiro, > > If you're not going to compile from the ports tree, or use portupgrade > or portmanager, then you will have to use pkg_add. Yoy don't have to > set PACKAGESITE and/or PACKAGEROOT. You will probably have to do > "pkg_delete mozilla-1.7.2_2,2 to remove mozilla from your installed > packages. Then you can do "package_add -r mozilla", and it should > download and install mozilla and required packages that haven't already > been installed. I think I did that on the old pentium 75 MHz machine and mozilla refused to install if I did not remove the new atk package. As I needed the new atk for updated ports, old mozilla package on the cdrom could not be installed. > > Is there some reason you would rather use mozilla than, say, www/firefox > and mail/thunderbird? No reason. I installed mozilla cause it was the only modern graphical browser that I found on the CDROM, but I prefer firefox and thunderbird as separate packages. I also love the "links" family mainly for text browsing. I know that "links" also have graphics suppport, but it is not as intuitive as mozilla for my mother ;-). Thank you very much for your help. Ramiro. > > Don > > -- > Donald J. O'Neill > donaldj1066@fastmail.fm > > I'm not totally useless, > I can be used as a bad example. > > >
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