From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 13 7: 1:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1112214F98 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 07:01:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03281; Thu, 13 May 1999 15:54:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA05540; Thu, 13 May 1999 15:54:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.2/8.9.1) id PAA15016; Thu, 13 May 1999 15:54:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Message-ID: <19990513155439.C14990@sr.se> Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 15:54:39 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt To: Henson Family Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: a little help with gnome install Reply-To: flygt@sr.se References: <37393960.8714EA24@inter.net.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <37393960.8714EA24@inter.net.il>; from Henson Family on Wed, May 12, 1999 at 10:18:41AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To make aa long story short. The easiest way to make ports recognize 3.3.3.1 is to create that directory in /var/db/pkg/ The directory should be named XFree86-3.3.3.1 I made mine as a link to whatever X-directory that was present there already! On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 10:18:41AM +0200, Henson Family wrote: > hi there got a little problem here. > i've been battling with this problem for a few days but with no success. > Naturally > i checked FAQs and searched archives but again with no success. > I just installed xfree86 with no problems and setup the config. so far > so good. > now i decided to install gnome. I went to the ports/x11/gnome and used > make > install just like with any port. one of the dependencies is imlib which > has > dependencies of it's own. giflib3.0 refused to finish building with no > apparent > reason. i decided to install the package and did so with no problems. i > then > wanted to continue the gnome install. the process continued with no > problem with > giflib. then came gtk. failure. it stopped after checking for X which it > didn't > find. It says it requires the x binaries. as i said i have x working > perfectly. > when i try to install the package it says could not find xfree863.3.3.1 > package > (or something like that) but finishes the install. the install of gnome > continues > once again but again in another dependency stops with the same problem > of not > finding X. there are a lot of dependencies and i do not want to use the > packages > for each since it is obvious there is a problem there too. even if i > mange to get > around the problem i like to fix the problem not just override it. > another thing that might be connected is that sometimes when i open > /stand/sysinstall (in order to install the packages) it says some thing > about > read.toc or something of the nature. i can't be sure because the > holographic shell > covers it and i can't see what it says. > i'd appreciate any reply on this matter. > thanks in advance, > Alon. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message