From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 11:58:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.surnet.ru (mobil.surnet.ru [195.54.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8406514E14 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:58:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ilia@cgilh.chel.su) Received: (from uucgilh@localhost) by mobil.surnet.ru (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with UUCP id AAA14585; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:50:39 +0600 (UDT) X-Authentication-Warning: mobil.surnet.ru: uucgilh set sender to ilia@cgilh.chel.su using -f Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cgilh.chel.su (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id AAA03389; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:30:35 +0600 Received: from localhost (ilia@localhost) by jane.cgu.chel.su (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA02691; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:16:11 +0600 (ESS) (envelope-from ilia@jane.cgu.chel.su) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:16:11 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine To: Mark Ovens Cc: Andreas Kreuzinger , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Error message: XFree86-3.3.3.1 not found In-Reply-To: <3725BFC4.3FD887D@uk.radan.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > 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. me saw it at least once. I guess a lot of people did also. Is it FreeBSD bug ?! Or what ?! Is it just a "feature" ? A lot of people can tell you create a directo.... but nobody will confess that IT IS A BUG ! I even saw somewhere at FAQ/Handbook that solution :-(( with mkdir :-(( > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message