From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 1 19:56:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A396816A4CE for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 19:56:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mout.perfora.net (mout.perfora.net [217.160.230.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69AA943D1F for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 19:56:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roop@hqst.com) Received: from [217.160.230.50] (helo=smtp.perfora.net) by mout.perfora.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AnVCM-0003ci-00; Sun, 01 Feb 2004 22:56:34 -0500 Received: from [24.82.165.92] (helo=hqst.com) by smtp.perfora.net with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AnVCM-0006Cm-00; Sun, 01 Feb 2004 22:56:34 -0500 Message-ID: <401DCA73.6020704@hqst.com> Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:56:35 -0800 From: Roop Nanuwa User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5a (Windows/20040126) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Krikket References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding Packages and Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 03:56:37 -0000 Krikket wrote: >I've done a brand-new install of FreeBSD (4.9), and am a fresh user to >this flavor of *nix. > > > Welcome, we hope you enjoy your stay :). >The install went more or less without a hitch. For some reason ldap (part >of the default package selection) didn't want to install. > > > Could you be a bit more specific? What happened during the install? Did it give you any error messages? >To test things out, I tried installing mozilla. It failed due to a >dependancy, so I checked out the website to see what was available, found >a version that was there, adn installed it. > > How are you installing mozilla? There shouldn't be any dependency problems in either of the two main ways to install packages on FreeBSD. Whether you install via the ports tree or through the package system all the dependencies should be handled for you. I think the reason that you're having dependency issues is because you're attempting to install binaries that you've downloaded that aren't packaged for FreeBSD specifically. >But when I type "mozilla" to start the program, it's not found. (Nor was >it added to the KDE Menu.) >I was able to do a "pkg_add -r cvsup" on the first try. But I ended up >with the same problem -- not being able to find the package once it was >installed. Needless to say, I can't add any ports as a result. > > Which shell are you running? You might have to run 'rehash' to refresh your shell's cache of available programs. Logging in/out would do the same but running 'rehash' is simpler/quicker. --roop