Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:46:07 -0400 From: "Martin Mactaggart" <martinm@visualedge.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: unable to install local package : package does not seem to exist on installation media Message-ID: <001101bf0a89$5d702090$a600a8c0@visualedge.com>
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Could someone from questions-freebsd possibly give him a more useful
answer? (original text is below)
Well, I'm no FreeBSD guru (hence my being here @ newbies :) but I can
tell that I am almost sure /usr/local being empty is a very bad thing...
There is. however, I am quite sure, a way to install FreeBSD with just
the first CD... I would try asking for help in freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
where all the smart people hang out.
While I am not sure if you have any packages/ports on the first CD (you
don't need them to get up and running, which is the sole point of CD 1),
you're right that not having ld.so or libexec makes you FUBAR.
As for stand/sysintall to install packages, I don't think that's gonna
work without the other CD's... to install packages you should go to
freebsd.org and download the "ports collection". extract this (using
"tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz") and you will find you have a large directory
structure that mimicks the directory structure in freebsd.org's ports
section. To install the port you want change to it's directory (eg:
Netscape4 --> cd /usr/local/ports/FreeBSD/WWW/netscape4 or something like
that) and type "make; make install; make clean".
I think you can install "the ports collection" from the first CD
though.... I might be able to help more if I were at home where the FreeBSD
is.
----- Original Message -----
From: mark rowlands <mar@bull.se>
To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: <martinm@visualedge.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 7:18 AM
Subject: RE: unable to install local package : package does not seem to
exist on installation media
it's ok, I've always been to dumb to work out when my intelligence is being
insulted :-)
Yes it is the first CD, I have tried two installs,
1) Full install, all binaries all source code
2) minimum install - to find out where was the naughty bit
I have repeated this with a freshly downloaded iso - unpacked to a dos
partition (to rule out any corruption in the burn process,
I also tried a make world ( just for fun) 3.5 hours of fun.
every port I have tried so far fails to install because /usr/local is empty
with
unable to open /usr/local/lib/ldconfig or /usr/local/libexec.... type
errors
when you run /stand/sysinstall - and take the post config option and install
additional distribution sets e.g bin compat docs etc there is an option
to install "local" - this fails with a "this does not exist on your
distribution media"
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Mactaggart [mailto:martinm@visualedge.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 11:01 PM
To: mar@bull.se
Subject: Re: unable to install local package : package does not seem to
exist on installation media
Which package causes the breakdown?
At the risk of insulting your intelligence (I don't have any idea if you
have PhD in computing or in Social Science :) are you sure you have the
right CD in the drive? FreeBSD is a 4 CD set, so if you DL'd the ISO by
FTP, go easy on the packages... You'll have to install a relitively minimal
(well, not THAT minimal) system and then download the packages you want
manually (well, not that manually) from the net.
----- Original Message -----
From: mark rowlands <mar@bull.se>
To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 3:15 PM
Subject: unable to install local package : package does not seem to exist on
installation media
Doing an install from the 3.3 CD, the above message occurs and all subseqent
package installations fail. with various messages about stuff in
/usr/local/libxxxx. Any words of wisdom. I have successfully installed 3.2
at home without this problem!
Mark - currently ftping the contents of his home machines /usr/local in the
hopelessly optimistic ambition that this will fix the problem. Rowlands
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