From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 23:50:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DAD816A4E6 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 23:50:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.26.172.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1885843D55 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 23:50:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id k84NnoXZ033785 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 16:49:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id k84NnoEl033784; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 16:49:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA20234; Mon, 4 Sep 06 16:28:14 PDT Date: Mon, 4 Sep 06 16:28:14 PDT From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Message-Id: <10609042328.AA20234@pluto.rain.com> To: norgaard@locolomo.org References: <10609040708.AA17675@pluto.rain.com> <44FBD821.1050703@locolomo.org> <10609041843.AA19210@pluto.rain.com> <44FC9696.901@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <44FC9696.901@locolomo.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Word processor for 6.1 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: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:50:05 -0000 > >>> Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? > >>> AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. > >> What do you mean: which won't build? No problems here - I recently > >> compiled both. They don't require the full gnome package. > > > > Both of them (and also Dia) require Glib, which won't build for me. > > I posted details of the failure to freebsd-gnome a day or two ago. > > Looking at that post it seems something failed when you tried to > update your ports collection. I suspect the blunder was in trying to update Ports at all, given it is a new 6.1 CD install and nothing *else* is updated. The Handbook suggests to always update Ports before trying to fetch/build anything, but that does not seem to have worked out very well in this case. > I'd suggest you delete it (keep distfiles though so you won't have > to fetch again), unpack again the ports.tgz, then install cvsup > and update the ports collection using that. I hesitate to get onto the cvsup treadmill -- from reading the website, tracking CURRENT did not sound like my desired usage model. I suspect what I really need is to have the entire Ports mechanism, including any downloaded distfiles, frozen as of 6.1-RELEASE. Unfortunately, the Handbook does not seem to cover that situation, at least in the Ports section. > If you installed programs from packages when you installed the > system, you may get problems with version conflicts installing > from an updated ports collection - this happens usually when the > last release is getting old. In that case, maybe you should clean > out the system, deinstall all packages, update ports and start > again. This takes time .... but given that 6.2 is coming up. It would also thoroughly defeat the purpose of installing from CD! I wonder if I ought to wipe the partitions and start completely over with a fresh install, and this time *don't* try to update the Ports.