Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 13:13:39 -0400 From: mfv <mfv@bway.net> To: atar <atar.yosef@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing chrome web browser through pkg install. Message-ID: <20150702131339.4f7e598e@gecko4> In-Reply-To: <D6AF826B-68FC-463C-BC27-0F9FB76C2E21@gmail.com> References: <D6AF826B-68FC-463C-BC27-0F9FB76C2E21@gmail.com>
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> On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 17:21 atar <atar.yosef@gmail.com> wrote: > >Hi there, > >According to section 7.2.4 in this page: >https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html, to install >chromium web browser, one should run the command: pkg install >chromium. Unfortunately, when I run it, pkg unable to find it and emit >the error message: pkg: No packages available to install matching >'chromium' have been found in the repositories. > >My 'pkg' version is 1.5.4. > >What's going wrong? I don't want to build the chromium browser from >the ports. _______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hello, According to the following website chromium failed for an unknown reason: http://beefy6.nyi.freebsd.org/build.html?mastername=101amd64-default&build=390941 This website monitors the building of the various packages for FreeBSD release 10.1 amd64. There are different websites for different versions. It is generally useful to provide the output of "uname -a" when specifying a problem. If that had been provided it would be possible to steer you in the direction of the build site for your system. I am personally impressed with all the information provided by this site. My only disappointment is that it does not provide a date/time when the build is finished and available as an updated repository. A date stamp would be useful as an output of "pkg stat". Cheers ... Marek
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