From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 11 04:32:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA2716A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 04:32:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from pandora.cs.kun.nl (pandora.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4147943D09 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 04:32:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adridg@cs.kun.nl) Received: from localhost by pandora.cs.kun.nl via odin.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.33] with ESMTP id hBBCWG1o007153 (8.12.10/3.58); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:32:19 +0100 (MET) From: Adriaan de Groot To: amd64 freebsd Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:09:50 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.94 References: <3FD785F2.9070907@texoma.net> In-Reply-To: <3FD785F2.9070907@texoma.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200312111309.50250.adridg@cs.kun.nl> cc: Jimmie Houchin Subject: Re: Packages/Ports problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:32:26 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:32:26 -0000 Hey Jimmie, On Wednesday 10 December 2003 21:45, Jimmie Houchin wrote: > My problem is that in the install it fails to get the selected packages. > It installs the base and such correctly. I am left with a bootable > system, but no XFree86 and other stuff. As you may have noticed, there probably aren't many (any?) amd64 packages available. This means you'll have to install most things from source (not a big deal, that's what the FreeBSD ports collection is for). In particular, if you've installed the ports collection, you can cd /usr/ports and see what's there. INDEX lists all ninethousand-odd ports that are available. You might cd /usr/ports/misc/instant-workstation make && make install && make clean to get things started. I'd suggest cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3 make && make install && make clean as well, but that's a personal bias. This will suck down vast quantities of source code and compile it. Probably successfully (although with KDE, it's problematic due to recent updates that are needed to build on amd64). > pkg_add -r cvsup This brings us to updating. Try to web search for "why is cvsup written in modula-3". The modula-3 compiler hasn't been ported yet, so cvsup can't be compiled, and it's a pretty basic part of the infrastructure. I think it was David who provided a link to a working cvsup package (no GUI). Check the archives of this list. As an alternative, if you've got a spare i386 box sitting around, you could install FreeBSD on that too, and install the i386 cvsup package on it. Then use that cvsup to update the sources and ports trees (you can share source and ports trees with NFS). -- pub 1024D/FEA2A3FE 2002-06-18 Adriaan de Groot If the door is ajar, can we fill it with door-jamb?