Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 18:35:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Angstadt <jimajima9@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Newbie Package Questions Message-ID: <20060508013519.51360.qmail@web50004.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi All, I'm new to FreeBSD and a first time poster to this list. I have used Linux for several years but would like to see what FreeBSD is like. tiny# uname -a FreeBSD tiny.brc.localnet 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 root@x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 The daily security report has identified 10 problem applications. So far, I have fixed one app, lynx-2.8.5 by deleting it with pkg_delete. Then added the 2.8.5_2 package. Simple, no dependancy problems. Next, I tried to uninstall ruby-1.8.2_4 but found two dependencies: ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2 portupgrade-20041226_7 which uninstalled with no problem. Then on to uninstall of ruby-1.8.2_4 : tiny# pkg_delete ruby-1.8.2_4 pkg_delete: '/usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system/created.rid' fails original MD5 checksum - not deleted. pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system' pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the packing list is incorrectly specified?) tiny# tiny# ls /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/ ls: /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/: No such file or directory tiny# ls /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system ls: /usr/local/share/ri/1.8/system: No such file or directory tiny# I'm not sure how to proceed with this one. A different package problem: tiny# pkg_delete ghostscript-gnu-nox11-7.07_13 tiny# pkg_add -r ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/ghostscript-gnu-nox11-7.07_15.tbz Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/ghostscript-gnu-nox11-7.07_15.tbz... Done. pkg_add: package 'ghostscript-gnu-nox11-7.07_15' conflicts with ghostscript-gnu-7.07_13 pkg_add: please use pkg_delete first to remove conflicting package(s) or -f to force installation tiny# pkg_delete ghostscript-gnu-7.07_13 pkg_delete: package 'ghostscript-gnu-7.07_13' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: gv-3.6.1 apsfilter-7.2.6 ggv-2.8.5 gnome2-2.10.2 tiny# Do I really have to delete / update all these apps just to update ghostscript. One last example: tiny# pkg_delete libiconv-1.9.2_1 pkg_delete: package 'libiconv-1.9.2_1' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: gettext-0.14.5 windowmaker-0.92.0 libgpg-error-1.0_1 ... plus another 125 packages Good grief, what am I doing wrong? This cannot be the correct way to manage errata. Please accept my apologies for the long message, I wanted to give a fuller picture of these problems. Jim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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