From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 6 10:04:53 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F317106564A for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 10:04:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonicy@otenet.gr) Received: from kane.otenet.gr (kane.otenet.gr [83.235.67.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1C48FC13 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 10:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pulstar.local (athedsl-4363800.home.otenet.gr [79.130.6.8]) by kane.otenet.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id o56A4orh028466; Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:04:50 +0300 Message-ID: <4C0B72C2.9030800@otenet.gr> Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:04:50 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Tsiapaliokas References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why so many errors with ports?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:04:53 -0000 On 06/06/2010 1:39 π.μ., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: > hello, > > i am coming from the linux world i was a gentoo user and i have install on > my second machine FBSD,i have made many formats but every time i try to > install a graphical enviroment (such as xfce,kde) many many errors come up. > i have heard that the ports are more stable than portage but with portage i > didn't have so many errors (actually i can't recall a time when portage > "died") > > am i doing sth wrong or ports comes up with many errors?? > > > P.S.: 1 week not i haven't manage to install a graphical enviroment > > > thanks in advance > I suggest you perform just the base system install from CD, and compile everything else from an updated ports tree. If you happen to install any packages from the DVD (and esp. since i.e. FreeBSD 8.0 has been out for some time now) you will experience problems - unless you run a portupgrade first (so that all shared libraries etc. get updated to the latest versions). This is not worthy it for a new install - just proceed with the base system install, do not install any packages (doc packages are ok though) and do not even install the ports collection. After the base system is installed, run portsnap fetch extract to get an up-to date ports tree (from then on, you can update this tree with portsnap fetch update) And then go on with installing everything you wish. I usually start with the smallest console based stuff (bash, zip, unzip, rar, unrar, sudo, screen, etc) and continue with x11/xorg and WM or DE of choice. I never had this fail. Have a look at the FreeBSD Handbook's chapter 4,5,6 as well.