Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 23:29:17 +0200 From: Alnis Morics <alnis.morics@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: olvwm on amd64 Message-ID: <546E5D2D.6010603@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGROAxU0OK7ZZYpuaqFQ3u6UjiUSeBE18adcpudoxcjtFodATQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGROAxU0OK7ZZYpuaqFQ3u6UjiUSeBE18adcpudoxcjtFodATQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/20/2014 23:01, Luciano Rottava da Silva wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to setup up a new FreeBSD desktop at home based on the new 10.1 > release. > > As usual, my wm of choice is olvwm. Well, didn't know ports/packages are > not available for amd64, only for i386. > > Searching on the Internet I've read in many places the problem is with > xview and there's no hope for 64-bit platform. > > But then I've found the following website: > > http://physionet.caregroup.harvard.edu/physiotools/xview/ > > So, question is, is it possible to run a i386 Linux package in my amd64 > Free machine? Would it be possible run the i386 FreeBSD packages xview and > olvwm? > > How can I run my beloved olvwm? There must be a way! > > Thanks & Regards, > Luciano. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Of course ports are available for amd64. Just run portsnap fetch extract to download and extract the ports tree. And olvwm is in ports. To install it, run: cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/olvwm make install clean The manual chapter on how to work with ports: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html -Alnis
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