Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 12:32:25 -0800 (PST) From: Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com> To: Lee Crites <adonai@jump.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation woes Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.970102123013.2119A-100000@avatar.avatar.com> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970102192313.006cd360@jump.net>
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On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Lee Crites wrote: > > I was in the process of sending a message about this myself. I had 14 > packages not install because it couldn't find it (including XFree86, trn, > tcp_wrappers, ssh, expect, and kermit), and another 14 with "some error" > (including jdk, emacs, and mtools). > > I'd be interested in any pointers... > > Thanks muchly... > > Lee > > This is what I was told: 1. sysinstall has a bug when installing a bunch of packages together. Use pkg_add instead. sysinstalls doesn't seem to reap the child processors correctly so the proc table fills up very quickly. 2. sysinstall also show packages which do not really exist. XFree86 does exist, but is not a part of the packages. You need to install it when you install the OS. Hope this helps. Kory
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