Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:31:11 +0100 (BST) From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: large pkg installs - experience Message-ID: <201406301031.s5UAVBed086456@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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Last week I needed to prepare 3 FreeBSD boxes for UG students. Since there were not for me, I wanted to have as painless experence as possible. All boxes are amd64. So I chose 10-release. I wanted to try gnome on one box, xfce on the second, and kde on the third, i.e. the 3 environments described in the handbook. Here is my experience. 1. Gnome is the clear winner - exactly as in the manual, and all packages available form the default repo. 2. Xfce install required some tweaking, I think not all packages were available from the default repo. In addition, I had to amend .xsession mentioned in the manual: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html echo "exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4" >> ~/.xsession to this: if [ -z "$DESKTOP_SESSION" -a -x /usr/bin/ck-launch-session ]; then exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 else exec dbus-launch /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 fi 3. KDE was in third place, i.e. last - I could not install it at all. The stumbling block was libGLU, which didn't want to install unless I set WITH_NEW_XORG. Does this mean that KDE is available only for new Xorg? I tried to set this in make.conf, but got errors on X -configure and freezes while trying to run X. When I have time, I might give in another go and send a PR. Finally, the issue of coexisting texlive and tetex seems to be still unresolved: pkg: WARNING: locally installed tex-kpathsea-6.1.0_2 conflicts on /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf with: - teTeX-base-3.0_25. or am I missing some make setting? Anton
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