From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 18 18:53:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA15220 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 18:53:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA15213 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 18:53:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA15940; Sat, 18 Oct 1997 18:53:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19971018185327.28769@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 18:53:27 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: allenc@verinet.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 3.3.1 distribution problem References: <199710171834.LAA28906@hub.freebsd.org> <344962E6.4B14@verinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <344962E6.4B14@verinet.com>; from Allen Campbell on Sat, Oct 18, 1997 at 07:31:18PM -0600 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Allen Campbell scribbled this message on Oct 18: [...] > Ok, no pkg_add. I think (as opposed to know) that the XFree86 > distribution in XF8633 is not assembled by FreeBSD maintainers, so I > wasn't suprised that pkg_add didn't work. However, the bug database > reference I found did not specifiy _how_ to manually install. Futher > searching in the mail archive said I should use the 'extract.sh' > script. I hunted through ftp.freebsd.org and ftp.cdrom.com; no > extract.sh. the problem is that you didn't read the documentation that is in the same directory as XF33{,1}bin.tgz ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/XFree86/current/binaries/FreeBSD-2.2/{FILES,README,RELNOTES,extract,preinst.sh,postinst.sh} and ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.2-RELEASE/XF38633 is just a symnlink to the above directory... > Finally, I gave up, made the /usr/X11R6 directory and untared X33bin.tgz > into it. I also ran ldconfig -m /usr/X11R6/lib as per the postinst.sh > script in the XFree86 3.3.1 distibution. if you read the docs that is one of the ways to install it... > Java is happy now. I'm not running X, so I don't need more than the > libs in X33bin.tgz. > > What am I doing wrong? What is the recommended way to install XFree86 > 3.3.1 on FreeBSD 2.2.2, in case I get inspired and try to install the > rest. as above, read the install documentation that comes with XFree86.. also.. if you installed X33bin.tgz you actually installed XFree86 version 3.3, and not 3.3.1... just so you know... hope this helps... ttyl... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD