From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 29 12:39:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B778F16A4CE for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:39:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com (frontend1.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CE7843D2F for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:39:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) X-Sasl-enc: EdjFWZvNPv9VIfx7C6773Q 1093783143 Received: from modem-3885.snake.dialup.pol.co.uk (modem-3885.snake.dialup.pol.co.uk [62.137.127.45]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D41D7C151EF for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 08:39:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "R. W." To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:38:54 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200408290330.i7T3UaHO023103@northgate.starhub.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <200408290330.i7T3UaHO023103@northgate.starhub.net.sg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408291338.54582.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: cannot install KDE3 or KDE-LITE from ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:39:07 -0000 On Sunday 29 August 2004 04:29, Peter Ryan wrote: > Thanks for the reply, but are you sure I need to do a port > upgrade after the cvsup if I am installing from the newly > updated port. KDE is the first application i am installing > after the standard installation of 4.10, and the error is > a missing file. Shouldnt the cvsup'd port have everything > I need ? It depends how much more than the base system sysinstall added, for example since you don't mention building Xfree86, I assume sysinstall would have added it from packages on the CD. Also cvsup itself has gui dependencies and they would also have been installed before cvsup was run. I'm not saying it will fix your problem, but installing a new port on top of up-to-date dependencies, in general, gives you a better chance of a clean install - particularly with complex metaports like kde. In general I've found KDE to be much easier to maintain from ports than Gnome. Whenever I've had a problem, a simple solution has appeared within a few days in UPDATING or at freebsd.kde.org