From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 04:32:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B39116A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 04:32:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 116B743D45 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 04:32:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from dsc02-chc-il-209-109-230-235.rasserver.net ([209.109.230.235] helo=nbritton.org) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1B67YX-0005fL-00; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 04:32:26 -0800 Message-ID: <40617FD7.9080305@nbritton.org> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 06:32:23 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tadimeti Keshav , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <20040324031649.71936.qmail@web25003.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040324031649.71936.qmail@web25003.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: ports installation (long) X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:32:38 -0000 Tadimeti Keshav wrote: >all, >thanks for the suggestions. >1. CVSUP: I tried CVSup = it updated my ports >skeletons, but while compiling XMMS 1.2.10, it needed >a newer version of libogg, which could not be >installed because mplayer-esound and artsd were using >an older version of libogg. (mplayer had installed by >then). > >I thought of doing a portupgrade to libogg, but this >would have broken artsd and mplayer-esound. Is this a >bug with the latest ports tree? > Your on the right track here....read this: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html >2. MAKE FETCH-RECURSIVE: Then I deleted the entire >ports tree and installed it fresh from CD-ROM; then cd >to /usr/ports/multimedia/xmms, then make >fetch-recursive. This went on for an hour. It tried to >fetch xc... and fetched libxml2. I killed this and did >a simple make, which downloaded the correct libxml and > 40 mins later, xmms was built. > >3. Mplayer: mplayer built fine (except for a glitch >which would download all skins regardless of the >options chosen). But when I do: gmplayer &, I get a >black patch in the bottom right corner of the screen, >which should be the GUI. > >3 hours later, I felt I may have been better off with >Mandrake Linux, with Xine,Mplayer,xmms and other >goodies installed within 1 hr. For now I am sticking >with FreeBSD, but I'll soon install dual boot Mandrake >Linux 9.1 for a usable computer. > If you want to use the ports system then it is allways going to take longer, this is part of the reason that FreeBSD also has the package system: Read Chapter 4 Installing Applications: Packages and Ports: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html