From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 6:49: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE035155C0 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 06:48:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10c8EE-0006CU-0A; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:48:51 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from support-3.uk.radan.com (support-3 [193.114.228.220]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id OAA03738; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:47:45 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com by support-3.uk.radan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA09025; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:47:43 +0100 Message-ID: <3725BFC4.3FD887D@uk.radan.com> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:46:44 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Kreuzinger Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error message: XFree86-3.3.3.1 not found References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andreas Kreuzinger wrote: > > Hi ! > > I installed FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE from different server (.de, .cz, > gd.tuwien.ac.at, ftp.freebsd.org) but every time it failed. > After installing distribution X-User (Basic without sources, X server > (SVGA, VGA16, S3 and S3V) and fonts (fnts, f100 and fscl)) and rebooting > the computer I run sysinstall and selected some packages. But when I try > to install them, I get the error message "Warning: is a > required package but was not found." for each package who needs X. > > If I look into the directory /usr/X11R6/ everything seems to be fine. > > I searched at the homepage but didn't find anything that would help me. > > Any hints? > Maybe it is only a missing symlink? > You need to create a directory /var/db/pkg/XFree86-3.3.3.1 This should get created by sysinstall (even though XFree is a distribution, not a package) but sometimes it doesn't for some reason. > thx > andy > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message