Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 09:47:55 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install xorg question .... Message-ID: <53E6349B.7070900@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <53E62F91.8020100@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <53E629EB.7050604@hiwaay.net> <53E62F91.8020100@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 08/09/14 09:26, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 09/08/2014 15:02, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> I am rying to install xorg-7.7 under FreeBSD 9.3 apparently needed by >> XFCE. I get the following: >> [root@kabini1, /etc, 8:56:00am] 353 % pkg install xorg-7.7 >> Updating repository catalogue >> FreeBSD repository is up-to-date >> All repositories are up-to-date >> The following 131 packages will be affected (of 0 checked): >> >> New packages to be INSTALLED: >> xorg: 7.7 >> xorg-libraries: 7.7_1 >> . >> . >> . >> xf86-input-keyboard: 1.8.0_2 >> >> The process will require 98 MB more space >> 37 MB to be downloaded >> >> Proceed with this action [y/N]: y >> Fetching xorg-apps-7.7.txz: 100% of 2 kB >> pkg: xorg-apps-7.7 failed checksum from repository >> [root@kabini1, /etc, 8:56:19am] 354 % >> >> >> I had already fetched the 1st part of the list. How do I work around >> this :-/ ? > This is quite possibly a bug that occurs when upgrading from pkg-1.2.7 > to pkg-1.3.5.1. The solution is to run: > > # pkg clean -a > # pkg update -f > > That will delete everything you've got in your package cache and force > pkg to refetch all the catalogues from the repositories you're using. > > Oh -- depending on your hardware, you might want to use the new-xorg > repository. See > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/WITH_NEW_XORG > http://daemon-notes.com/articles/desktop/kde > > Cheers, > > Matthew > Thanks, worked like a champ !!!!! -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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