Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:58:16 -0400 From: media@ct1.nai.net To: igorr@crosswinds.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: common packages not working Message-ID: <v03130302b608d002eb2e@[209.150.38.165]> In-Reply-To: <20001010080910.A11202@linux.rainbow> References: <v03130301b607e6aa8bfa@[209.150.38.237]>; from media@mail1.nai.net on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:43:00PM -0400 <v03130301b607e6aa8bfa@[209.150.38.237]>
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At 8:09 AM +0400 10/10/00, Igor Roboul wrote: > >I think ports is better. Others may think packages are better. Only one >thing I can say, when I have used (and on some PC's still use) various >Linux distros, my /usr/local grows bigger and bigger just because I >don't like RPMS/SRPMS dpkg slp and Slackware .tgz so I used source. >But with excelent ports system in FreeBSD sources work even better :-) Thanx :) I think my problem is that I need X installed to run ghostscript. Actually, I wanted ghostscript so I could print the documentation needed to figure how to get Xfree86 up and running. I seem to be having lots of chicken and egg problems -- even the README for lynx is in html!! >Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", >Sochi, Russia >http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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