From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Mar 15 10: 9:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from shrike.depaul.edu (shrike.depaul.edu [140.192.1.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895DD14BE7 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:09:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mhughes@shrike.depaul.edu) Received: from localhost (mhughes@localhost) by shrike.depaul.edu (8.8.3/8.5) with SMTP id MAA19523; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 12:02:59 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 12:02:57 -0600 (CST) From: Matthew J Hughes To: Nigel A Reading Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loading Distributions/Packages from CD In-Reply-To: <000101be6ec7$e4e36e50$02000080@geffen> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Nigel A Reading wrote: > I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. I am > trying to load some of the packages and distributions from CD and I am > getting the following warning message : > > Warning : XXXXXXX is a required package but was not found. > where XXXXXXX is the package name. > I have copy of the FreeDSB 2.2.8 CD's from Walnut Creek. > Thanking you in advance for your help with this matter. > Nigel Oh I have been reading enough of the mannuals that I have a fuzzy idea of the answer to this question. Certain programs require others to been on the system. If they are not there you will get an error when you try to make them because it can not find them. For example, If you try to make xnameofprogramhere and you do not have X made then you would get an error. At least that is my guess. I have not gotten that far. I borrowed the CD's and returned them before I knew what I was doing. My isp drops in ~18 seconds. they say it is Ameritech(the phone company) and Ameritech says it's not them. Hey would somebody let me know if my guess is right ? Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message