From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 22 18:50:19 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58D8410656D0 for ; Sun, 22 May 2011 18:50:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xnooby@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFA1C8FC12 for ; Sun, 22 May 2011 18:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so5865379bwz.13 for ; Sun, 22 May 2011 11:50:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=3ofSXHYLTI564WO2H8x9jAUzHTjH5wTnvLOZIiS/uUk=; b=UQC3THdJPYMdxkxaD9v19yfR4nmcDK8bbVF9Xe9ykzRUxM5DkeJBV3TDkFe+yJhc95 2EXzv6eGsRFvDKcJeH1iLycv4OJyEl8Yyr41PxGg6cuDCALXy0Sg0QCfXYfGTJkYxVMz 6EPSJLnCRMtCqdwVlU6pTp4o5p4rqtYldBjWY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=B3XK+kRIuPxaQATKp8beENs+vTVNNF1Lbuhp1DXizINK5F3VNcU+2Wn16qulgKxmze 9mrjW1aJresyKObuzXFz1BFPYNL9WN9VxeMmfNgkkgyWvcUajHgstM6PxMl3X1SBzRD/ AMQ0vQrSQ/OtnODyNG8N4A5lxioY++ClVHWIo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.82.74 with SMTP id a10mr1336216bkl.96.1306090217240; Sun, 22 May 2011 11:50:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.25.78 with HTTP; Sun, 22 May 2011 11:50:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4DD8CC4A.1080207@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4DD8CC4A.1080207@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 14:50:17 -0400 Message-ID: From: Xn Nooby To: Matthew Seaman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Not able to install firefox 4 from 8.2 stable packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 18:50:19 -0000 > =A0 # portsnap fetch update > =A0 # cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster > =A0 # make install > =A0 # portmaster --check-depends > =A0 # portmaster www/firefox Thanks!, that worked, though I had to do a 'rehash' after the 'make install= '. > There is work going on to change this situation -- search the list > archives for discussion of pkgNG and PC-PSD's .pci format if you're > interested. In the mean time, many people find that installing > everything from source via the ports is the least frustrating method, > albeit at the cost of spending more time running compilations. I started using the approach of installing everything from ports, but it takes a long time to build things like xorg and firefox. Even though I don't like PC-BSD using KDE, their PBI system seems to circumvent these problems. I will read up on pkgNG, too. Thanks!