Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:18:26 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: "Ron (Lists)" <rg.lists@rzweb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/local/sbin/apxs is missing. Message-ID: <201011072218.oA7MIQeZ036546@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Sun, 07 Nov 2010 13:43:38 PST." <13f308dde09e6e2d85524eadb2f02c36@flabnapple.net>
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Hi, "Ron (Lists)" wrote: > Still trying to unscrew my perl installation. Perl and Apache both > fail to install due to the missing /usr/local/sbin/apxs. I have no > idea what failed package removed it, but now I can't install perl. > > Who installs this file? cd /pri/FreeBSD/releases/current/ports # or eg cd /usr/ports find . -type f -name pkg-plist | xargs grep sbin/apxs + There's useful progs here: cd /usr/sbin ; echo *pkg* pkg_add pkg_create pkg_delete pkg_info pkg_updating pkg_version with man command for those, + exploration in /var/db/pkg you'll be able to analyse & solve it all. PS if you start having problems with libs too, try eg ldconfig -R > It appears to be an apache file, but I can't > install apache because it's missing. > > I'm really dead in the water because so much the system requires perl > and it was uninstalled by portmaster (for some reason I don't > understand) and I can't install it due to the missing file. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not HTML, quoted-printable & base 64 spam formats. Avoid top posting, it cripples itemised cumulative responses.
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