Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 12:39:16 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Gary D Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: Cliff Sarginson <cls@willow.raggedclown.intra>, FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ok, KDE/Help .. after my moans what now ? Message-ID: <20030303113916.GB94083@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030303031637.GA70732@tao.thought.org> References: <20030303011927.GA4016@willow.raggedclown.intra> <20030303031637.GA70732@tao.thought.org>
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--nVMJ2NtxeReIH9PS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 07:16:37PM -0800, Gary D Kline wrote: > I've been having much the same experience. Trying to upgrade > things let go too long on my 4.7-PRE system has been nearly' > futile. =20 >=20 > I like having src, like most of us hackers. But take Redhat > that a friend installed on another system. It sucks over=20 > ports and plugs them in and adjusts the dependencies and=20 > the newer Linux programs Just-Work. >=20 > I tried to get the FBSD vers of mozilla working (with plugins) > for a month. It wasn't until I installed "linux-mozilla" that=20 > everythng worked here. Flash, shockwave, real-audio...=20 Not a flame, but this is just hard because all those plugins are only available for Linux. Complain to Macromedia & Real.com. FWIW, www/flashpluginwrapper works beautifully for Flash 5, and www/mplayer-plugin handles all my video needs, which does not include Real, granted. But that is only a matter of time. > Flames to /dev/null, gentlemen. I know that RH is commercial. > Still, wouldn't it be "allowable" to check out their ports > system?? And get into RPM hell? No way. Portupgrade should be able to upgrade older systems just fine, but the fact= of the matter is that cruft tends to accumulate, even when using only ports. O= ne faulty pkg-plist and something gets left behind. Most of the time this is no problem, but it can cause strange behaviour, for example when a header file= is left behind but the corresponding library is not. This is why staying on top of things helps you out, because when plist errors get fixed, you also have the correct registered information in your /var/db/pkg. And of course, as others already pointed out, just complaining without providing error messages or helpful output will of course get you nowhere. Saying 'Red Hat is better because it works there' is only an indication that somewhere along the line something on your system became broken to the point that it broke other things. You need to find out what it is (and that goes to the OP as well). --Stijn --=20 Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons. -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" --nVMJ2NtxeReIH9PS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+Yz7kY3r/tLQmfWcRAqywAJwI6vf2EuAC7iGmWy2DkR4g/DxVAACfRdXY AXozJ+D1ryYwG32vCrRnpsU= =4w/x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nVMJ2NtxeReIH9PS-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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