From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 1 23:21:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA26685 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 23:21:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA26677 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 23:21:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA02023; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 23:21:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 23:21:25 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Michael Alwan cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation problems with xemacs-19.14 pkg In-Reply-To: <33192665.41C67EA6@rma.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Michael Alwan wrote: > To all: > > First time I tried to install this large package, I got errors about > file "doesn't really exist;" Jordan Hubbard told me how to fix > pkg_add. I finally got the correct sources from the stable tree > tonight, and pkg_add seems to be fixed, but my problems with xemacs > continues. Using the -n option with pkg_add, I got these errors: > > xemacs-19.14 depends on 'jpeg-6a' and was not found > > xemacs-19.14 depends on 'png-0.89c and was not found > > Previously, trying to install without the -n option (after fixing > pkg_add), I got these error messages plus others about directories not > existing. It seems sometimes there are two or three levels in a > directory tree that don't exist. I.e. where pkg_add expected to find > something like /usr/lib/?1/?2/emacs, my existing directory tree doesn't > even go as far as ?1. > > Any advice? Try compiling it from the port, perhaps? > Thanks, > > Michael > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."