From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 21 14:00:48 2005 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 2B91216A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:00:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFE7C43D54 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:00:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from localhost (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EB3569A87; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:00:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:00:46 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: Paul Richards Message-Id: <20050221090046.62ca9808.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0rc (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Items exist in ports, but not as packages. 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, 21 Feb 2005 14:00:48 -0000 Paul Richards wrote: > Hi, > I've been trying to install a few packages using 'pkg_add -r' but I > have found that there are a few which only exist as ports, and not > packages. The main one which I am missing is 'vtk-tcl'. > > Is it generally the case that the precompiled packages are not always > available when the ports are? According to freshports.org I should be > able to use 'pkg_add -r' for vtk-tcl. Pretty much. There's no guarantee that all ports are available as packages. > Unfortunately I am only allowed (by the girlfriend) to play with > FreeBSD on an old 1 gig disk and so I don't have the space to install > ports. Are there any other sources of precompiled packages which I > could use? Is there a way to install just the portion of the ports > tree which I need? You can work with an incomplete ports tree sometimes. The ports tree is heavily dependent on the fact that make can jump to different directories to install dependencies and such ... that being said, I have been able to use partial ports trees in the past. It's a bit of a gamble. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com