Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 18:55:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Can you relate to my Tour of Despair? Message-ID: <20020724184613.T15304-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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1. We begin our tour at www.freebsd.org and click on Ported Apps.
2. At www.kde.org we were told that 2.2.2 is old and that we can install
3.0.2 but for Turbo/Mandrake/SuSE or other Linuxes, but not as easily for
FreeBSD, where we must choke on the ol' source method.
3. We search for kde and notice an interesting app near the top of the list:
Search for: [kde ] [All ][4.6-STABLE/i386 ] [Submit]
Category audio
agbrowser-0.96_1
Simple browser for Audiogalaxy under KDE2
Maintained by: lioux@FreeBSD.org
Requires: Mesa-3.4.2_2, XFree86-libraries-4.2.0_2, agsatellite-0.520_2,
cups-base-1.1.15.1, fam-2.6.8, freetype2-2.1.2, imake-4.2.0_1, jpeg-6b_1,
kdelibs-2.2.2_3, lcms-1.08, libaudiofile-0.2.3, libiconv-1.8, libmng-1.0.3,
libxml2-2.4.23, libxslt-1.0.19, linux_base-7.1, pcre-3.7, pkgconfig-0.12.0,
png-1.2.4, python-2.2.1, qt-2.3.1_2, tiff-3.5.7
Description : Sources : Changes : Download
4. Those are a lot of requirements. We click on Download, never knowing
what to expect but dreading our assumptions will come true...
Index of ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/audio/agbrowser/
[Upper Directory]
Makefile. . Jan 6 2002 837
distinfo. . Sep 4 2001 63
files/. . . May 20 10:03 -
pkg-comment Apr 7 2001 42
pkg-descr . Apr 7 2001 312
pkg-plist . Sep 22 2001 1.36K
5. Hm, we have no idea how to tell cvsup or portupgrade to use this ftp URL
and install over the Internet, and we also admit to ourselves that Windows
XP Professional is looking better everyday despite our hatred of
monopolistic Micro$oft, so let's try this instead:
# pkg_add -r agbrowser
Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/Latest/agbrowser.tgz... Done.
Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/All/linux_base-7.1.tgz... Done.
Installation of the Linux base system is finished. The Linux kernel mode, which must be enabled for Linux binaries to run, is now enabled. Linux mode can be enabled permanently with the linux_enable variable of rc.conf(5).
When using NIS, don't forget to edit
yp.conf in /compat/linux/etc.
Broken pipe
6. Uhm, wha-? I realize pkg_add will install dependencies but what is a
yp.conf and doesn't it already know I changed "linux_enable" to YES and
might pkg_add be fearing that I will now club it with a broken pipe?
7. All help warmly accepted.
--
Peter Leftwich
President & Founder
Video2Video Services
Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA
+1-413-403-9555
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