From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 13 8:51:25 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 08:51:23 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A792637B400 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 08:51:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 97568 invoked by uid 100); 13 Dec 2000 16:51:20 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14903.43271.970807.422637@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:51:19 -0600 (CST) To: Francisco Reyes Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: packages rather than ports In-Reply-To: <6151323@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Francisco Reyes types: > On a previous post.. > > > Running /stand/sysinstall gives a very useable interface to installing > > > packages. > > > james > But doesn't always handle dependencies. For example xfce would not install > from package due to missing dependencies, but worked fine from ports. If it's *not* installing because it can't install the dependencies, you may be able to fix it by setting up the environment properly. It should just be using pkg_add (which is the command line tool to install packages), so the man page for that will have details on setting environment variables so it will fetch packages from the net for you. If that doesn't work, you can always just use pkg_add directly on the contents of the CDs. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message