Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 14:14:38 -0400 From: Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> To: John Wynstra <jwynstra@nyc.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Subject: Re: another problem Message-ID: <20080517181438.GA4418@shepherd> In-Reply-To: <482F061D.7020307@nyc.rr.com> References: <482C9DE5.60906@nyc.rr.com> <20080515205252.GA2821@osiris.chen.org.nz> <482CEA3E.1090402@nyc.rr.com> <20080516035346.GA35105@osiris.chen.org.nz> <482DDA7B.6020201@nyc.rr.com> <482DF607.4050209@nyc.rr.com> <482E294B.8010408@nyc.rr.com> <482F061D.7020307@nyc.rr.com>
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* John Wynstra <jwynstra@nyc.rr.com> [05-17-2008]:
> The *portsnap fetch extract* seems to have failed. I do *pkg_version -v*
> and openoffice-2 does not appear in the listing. Why not?
Because it is not installed?
> previous /usr/ports tree came from a tar extract I took from the internet
> and not the installation CDROM. Should I clean out some INDEX files and
> redo this step or is that done automatically? I just now did another
> *portsnap fetch update* and openoffice.org was not listed among the new
> ports. Of course *pkg_version -v* gives me an incomplete listing.
It does not matter where your ports tree came from. Go to:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/portsnap.html
and follow the instructions to update your tree.
> Now what is -lgio-2.0? and why is it missing?
This is related to glib2.0.
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Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
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