From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 19:19:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out4.ibm.net (out4.ibm.net [165.87.194.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFDB314BD0 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 19:19:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikegoe@ibm.net) Received: from Nikki.ibm.net (slip129-37-208-220.oh.us.ibm.net [129.37.208.220]) by out4.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id CAA89560 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 02:19:12 GMT From: "Michael G." To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: Re: Error message: XFree86-3.3.3.1 not found Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:22:00 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.17] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99042722222101.00388@Nikki.ibm.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Go to /var/db/pkg and make sure a directory called XFree86-3.3.3.1 is there...if not create it. Packages check this directory for depencies before they install. Michael G. On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Andreas Kreuzinger wrote: > Hi ! > > I installed FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE from different server (.de, .cz, > gd.tuwien.ac.at, ftp.freebsd.org) but every time it failed. > After installing distribution X-User (Basic without sources, X server > (SVGA, VGA16, S3 and S3V) and fonts (fnts, f100 and fscl)) and rebooting > the computer I run sysinstall and selected some packages. But when I try > to install them, I get the error message "Warning: XFree86-3.3.3.1 is a > required package but was not found." for each package who needs X. > > If I look into the directory /usr/X11R6/ everything seems to be fine. > > I searched at the homepage but didn't find anything that would help me. > > Any hints? > Maybe it is only a missing symlink? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message