Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:14:45 -0400 From: "Lawrence Petrykanyn" <lawrence.petrykanyn@sympatico.ca> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Newbie - Trouble Installing Gnome2 Message-ID: <NHBBJEJOKLFKIEFKGELBAEPCCEAA.lawrence.petrykanyn@sympatico.ca>
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Hi,
In order to have a clean start, I installed FreeBSD 5.4 from
scratch (disc1, only). I choose the installation option "All system
sources, binaries and and X Window System". Everything went well. The
first thing I did after the system rebooted was a portupgrade -a. Then I
did a cvsup with the following supfile...
*default tag=.
*default host=cvsup10.FreeBSD.org
*default prefix=/usr
*default base=/var/db
*default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
src-all
ports-all
..as per instructions in Appendix A of the Handbook. That went
well. Then I ran "cvs mysupfile". It ran for quite a while, but gave no
error messages, so I guess it went well. Then I did "Xorg -configure" and
everything worked okay and got into xterm.
Next I went to /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 and did "make install
clean". This ran for hours, occasionally prompting me for preferences, then
it stopped. Here is what it said...
Attempting to fetch from
ftp://ftp-FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ghostscript/.
fetch: ghostscripts-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz: local modification
does not match remote
=> Couldn't find it - please try to retrieve this
=> port manually in /usr/ports/distfiles/ghostscript and try
again.
***Error Code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/print/gsfonts
***Error Code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gnu
***Error Code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/print/ggv
***Error Code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/gnome2
...so, what happened? I am a newbie and don't understand what
"porting manually" to retrieve this file means. Should I just start from
scratch again and reinstall? I don't have any files on my disk that I have
to back up. And if/when I reinstall, is it sufficient to just select the
"Average User" distribution set and just add additional files, as I need
them?
Any advice, comments and suggestions would be very appreciated
at this time.
Thanks in advance,
Lawrence
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