Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 23:57:04 -0800 From: charon@freethought.org To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 and packages Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990127235704.00a2d140@mail> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990128015759.16929D-100000@turkey.ispro.net. tr> References: <3.0.5.32.19990127154759.00a2b830@mail>
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At 02:01 AM 1/28/99 +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote: >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? When I force a pkg_add, I get a message that dependency registration is incomplete. Does this cause a problem? The fact that XFree86 _isn't_ a package makes me wonder why the system is looking for it to be registered in /var/db/pkg in the first place. I can't install XFree via port because my laptop (the FreeBSD machine) isn't networked... any suggestions? -charon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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