Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:03:03 +0100 From: Barnaby Scott <bds@waywood.co.uk> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Software installasion (Was: Re: Wine without X) Message-ID: <49CF9BB7.7050206@waywood.co.uk>
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Mel Flynn wrote: > On Saturday 28 March 2009 13:06:44 Robert Huff wrote: >> Mel Flynn writes: >>> > Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I >>> > can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible >>> > for one reason oranother, place to download application source to? >>> >>> Most systems I use or inherited use a variation of ~/src ~/cvs or >>> ~/svn, where src are the tarballs + their extracted source and >>> cvs/svn checkouts and/or exports. >> I have never done this, but if I were running a private ports >> tree I would be tempted to root it (if not on a separate partition) >> at "/usr/priv_ports" or something similar and have the structure >> minic /usr/ports whereever possible. The name would then be >> semi-intuitive, and a simple change of a few environment variables >> (perhaps in the login file of an account dedicated to working on >> those ports) would be all it took to change the framework. > > A private portstree (as in: uses the ports framework for compiling and > installing software, including registering the port in /var/db/pkg) is best > kept in /usr/ports/local. One needs to set VALID_CATEGORIES=local in > /etc/make.conf and optionally add SUBDIR+=local in /usr/ports/Makefile.local > if one cares about the ports ending up in the INDEX and make search. > > Ideally software not registering itself inside /var/db/pkg (as in software > compiled by hand) should NOT be installed in $LOCALBASE (/usr/local by > default) as there is no guarantee through the ports CONFLICTS mechanism, that > a port overwrites files installed by your hand-compiled software. > Many thanks to all who have helped on this one. I managed to get wine installed without X and it works :) However my application doesn't :( Most of the errors are concerned with MS Visual C++ libraries, which I have unconfirmed indications might be solved with 'winetricks' http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks. However, I think using winetricks means I need X anyway. So, I will leave it for now and try again after a bit more research. Thanks for all the ideas about where to download/install custom apps - the one that appeals most at this stage is a jail, partly because I have never played with them, and I think I should progress my learning in that direction. However I find the other answers very useful insights too. Given that winetricks calls itself a 'quick and dirty script', along with the fact that the current wine port doesn't work, I think I see another manual installation coming on.
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