From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 27 16:02:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA03924 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:02:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from turkey.ispro.net.tr (turkey.ispro.net.tr [195.174.18.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA03902 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:02:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr) Received: from localhost (yurtesen@localhost) by turkey.ispro.net.tr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA17755; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 02:01:07 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 02:01:07 +0200 (EET) From: Evren Yurtesen To: charon@freethought.org cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 and packages In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990127154759.00a2b830@mail> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I guess you may use; -f Force installation to proceed even if prerequisite packages are not installed or the requirements script fails. Although pkg_add will still try to find and auto-install missing prerequisite packages, a failure to find one will not be fatal. I think that you will still be able to use packages without any problem even though you see some error messages. On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 charon@freethought.org wrote: > The packages I'm trying to install require XFree86, but don't recognize > that I have it on my system because I didn't install it via port (I > downloaded it from www.XFree86.org and followed their directions). What do > I need to do to make window managers, etc. recognize that I have X installed? > > > > -charon > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message