From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 28 10:47:48 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23944 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:47:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out5.ibm.net (out5.ibm.net [165.87.194.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23939 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:47:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikegoe@ibm.net) Received: from Nikki (slip129-37-208-147.oh.us.ibm.net [129.37.208.147]) by out5.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA41878 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:47:33 GMT Message-Id: <199901281847.SAA41878@out5.ibm.net> From: "Michael G." To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:37:51 -0500 Reply-To: "Michael G." X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: XFree86 and packages Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When you install a package it looks in the /var/db/pkg directory to see if you have the appropriate dependencies already installed. When you install X, it doesn't put anything there to tell packages it's installed (it used to...not sure what happened)...anayways if your using X ver 3.3.x (2 or 3) go into the /var/db/pkg directory as root and mkdir XFree86-3.3.x (be sure to change the "x" to your version)...ofcourse I've had 3.3.2 installed and fooled packages into thinking I had 3.3.3 by making another directory...can't reccommend that though... Michael G. On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 15:47:59 -0800, 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? > > > >-charon > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ------------------------------------------------------------------- ICQ #24517082 Live FreeBSD...Or Die! PIC X 10 VALUE "YES! COBOL" ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message