Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 00:32:23 -0600 From: "Doug Schwieder" <dougschwieder@earthlink.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: ports install problems Message-ID: <000801c1ffc8$1ab38800$b0e2aec7@e0v0a6>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi folks. I am at the end of my patience, so time to ask. I've been all through the man pages/books/internet looking for answers & don't see any. After writing all of what's below, I can summarize my problem: X & friends don't work, and I can't install all of the ports, error messages come up. see the last paragraph for what looks like the obvious problem. The gory details are inbetween the 2. Thanks. Doug Schwieder I've had problems with both kde & gnome not responding to mouse clicks. Always on the same buttons, in same windows, some graphical configuration stuff does'nt do anything when you try it. eg: screensavers, black screen instead of demos, no preview button, no edit options on some, optional window managers don't work, enlightenment, aren't listed, etc I could go on and on so I'm suspecting this stuff isn't completely installed. Uninstalled reinstalled 2 3 4 times can't keep track now. More stuff is functional but same general situation. In order to solve tried reinstalling "all" ports, to avoid problems and time installing separate packages. This doesn't work, error messages about not being able to find "9e...tar.gz", etc. Tried installing gnome & kde, same messages about numerous files. Solution: went to 2nd vt added packages that make said weren't there, went back to make again, each time this got me farther before error messages came up. Eventually added all the packages that make couldn't find, make happened error free. This went ditto for gnome & kde. This somewhat confused me though. Wasn't using "pkg_add..." installing the binaries, which make would have had to compile from source? If that's the difference between adding packages and ports, why did make suddenly find the source after adding the packages manually in binary form? Incidentally the names of the files that make said it couldn't find always had a slightly different extension than the package file on the cdrom. eg "gnome....tar.gz" in error message versus "gnome ....tgz" on cd. Also incidentally, for this reason I gave up on linux, exact same problem with Mandrake cd's I bought a year or 2 ago, gnome & kde weren't very functional. Looking in the handbook that came with the dist, I see that make looks for the files in either /usr/ports/distfiles, which is almost completely empty, except for what I add manually, and /cdrom/ports/distfiles. On my cd's there isn't any ports directory on 3 or 4. Of course #1 has the ports directory but no distfiles. Is this the answer to why make can't find them? Or is this a typo in the book? Where does make look for the files? [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#fffff0> <DIV><FONT size=2>Hi folks. I am at the end of my patience, so time to ask. I've been all through the man pages/books/internet looking for answers & don't see any.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>After writing all of what's below, I can summarize my problem: X & friends don't work, and I can't install all of the ports, error messages come up. see the last paragraph for what looks like the obvious problem. The gory details are inbetween the 2.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Thanks.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Doug Schwieder</FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I've had problems with both kde & gnome not responding to mouse clicks. Always on the same buttons, in same windows, some graphical configuration stuff does'nt do anything when you try it. eg: screensavers, black screen instead of demos, no preview button, no edit options on some, optional window managers don't work, enlightenment, aren't listed, etc I could go on and on so I'm suspecting this stuff isn't completely installed. Uninstalled reinstalled 2 3 4 times can't keep track now.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>More stuff is functional but same general situation.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>In order to solve tried reinstalling "all" ports, to avoid problems and time installing separate packages. This doesn't work, error messages about not being able to find "9e...tar.gz", etc. Tried installing gnome & kde, same messages about numerous files. Solution: went to 2nd vt added packages that make said weren't there, went back to make again, each time this got me farther before error messages came up. Eventually added all the packages that make couldn't find, make happened error free. This went ditto for gnome & kde. This somewhat confused me though. Wasn't using "pkg_add..." installing the binaries, which make would have had to compile from source? If that's the difference between adding packages and ports, why did make suddenly find the source after adding the packages manually in binary form? Incidentally the names of the files that make said it couldn't find always had a slightly different extension than the package file on the cdrom. eg "gnome....tar.gz" in error message versus "gnome ....tgz" on cd. Also incidentally, for this reason I gave up on linux, exact same problem with Mandrake cd's I bought a year or 2 ago, gnome & kde weren't very functional.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Looking in the handbook that came with the dist, I see that make looks for the files in either /usr/ports/distfiles, which is almost completely empty, except for what I add manually, and /cdrom/ports/distfiles. On my cd's there isn't any ports directory on 3 or 4. Of course #1 has the ports directory but no distfiles. Is this the answer to why make can't find them? Or is this a typo in the book? Where does make look for the files?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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