From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 21 10:34:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57B4D37B4CF for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2000 10:34:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 22850 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2000 19:34:47 +0200 Received: from bb-62-5-7-17.bb.tninet.se (HELO marbsd.tninet.se) (62.5.7.17) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 21 Oct 2000 19:34:47 +0200 From: Mark Rowlands To: Tim McMillen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: errors installing KDE-1.94 Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 19:28:58 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00102119304800.00512@marbsd.tninet.se> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Tim McMillen wrote: > Hello, > > I had bought 4.1 release and just upgraded to 4.1.1 last night > after downloading the ISO. I decided to try to install KDE-1.94 beta. > pkg_add kde_1.94.tgz told me the other packages I would need. I ftp'd > all those. I tried again and got numerous errors about needing > XFree86-3.3.6_2. I had 3.3.5 apparently installed so I used > /stand/sysinstall to upgrade to 3.3.6 off the 4.1.1 release cd. I got > the X server working. > trying pkg_add kde_1.94.tgz again gives more errors: > > pkg_add: could not find package XFree86-3.3.6_2 ! > pkg_add: autoload of dependency `/usr/home/tim/Mesa-3.2.1_1.tgz' failed! > and numerous more like it. > Of course it can't find the package. I couldn't either! :) > I guess I find it strange that there is a package available for all sorts > of oddities (and for XFree4.1something) but not for 3.3.6_2. Is there one > coming soon and that is why kde-1.94 expects a package? > Anyway, could anybody show me a work around or a way to get 1.94 > installed? Or can show me what I did wrong? I'm pretty much a moron with > make but I really like how slick the package system really is. Everything > else I have tried has installed just great. > Thank you, > > Tim did you cvsup your ports collection? pkg_version ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/INDEX will compare your installed packages against the current list > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- These are just my opinions you are free to disagree please do so quietly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message