Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:45:36 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Ben Downer <bdown@graffiti.net> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome 2.6 Message-ID: <1081291536.810.20.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <20040406123633.74D7823AB1@ws5-3.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20040406123633.74D7823AB1@ws5-3.us4.outblaze.com>
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--=-RiudaSF9M3kGS9fyD71h Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 08:36, Ben Downer wrote: > Hi Mezz, >=20 > Okay, I tried to install gnome 2.6 on a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.2.1. >=20 > Following what is outlined here, http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.h= tml#q1 , I typed pkg_add -r gnome2, but this installed gnome 2.4 files, and= left my machine in a non usable state (ie, new applications requiring old = libraries). >=20 > Nuked the system, a new fresh install, try a different approach. >=20 > setenv PACKAGESITE "http://www.marcuscom.com/tb/packages/5.2.1-GNOME-2.6/= " >=20 > pkg_add -r gnome2-2.6.0 (didn't work at all without the version number= ) >=20 > libgnomecanvas is not installed, so gnome apps don't work. >=20 > Hopefully its an easy fix somewhere in dependencies, but I seem to have f= ollowed all the correct steps from everything that I've read, and have gott= en no where. Where is the output of the pkg_add (preferrably pkg_add -v)? Since you were using PACKAGESITE, you should have set it to: http://www.marcuscom.com/tb/packages/5.2.1-GNOME-2.6/Latest/=20 Then you could have done pkg_add -r gnome2. Joe >=20 > Thankyou, > Ben >=20 >=20 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> > Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 03:46:08 -0500 > To: Ben Downer <bdown@graffiti.net> > Subject: Re: Gnome 2.6 >=20 > > You still haven't explain how you upgrade your system. We have no idea=20 > > what you have done. > >=20 > > BTW: Be sure to check=20 > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2004-April/006030.html > > before you reply back. > >=20 > > Cheers, > > Mezz > >=20 > > On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 15:30:27 +0800, Ben Downer <bdown@graffiti.net> wro= te: > >=20 > > > Just as an addition to my last email, this ends up totally b0rking th= e=20 > > > system, as the libs are now half 2.4 and half 2.6. > > > > > > Ben > >=20 > >=20 > > --=20 > > bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz. --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-RiudaSF9M3kGS9fyD71h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAczMQb2iPiv4Uz4cRAgp/AJ9wuLK6w4FP6//qPOhWhQhcOKCYLQCgqham 1V/70UxESE4Bi0W1ZgIS/7M= =QTLj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-RiudaSF9M3kGS9fyD71h--
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