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Date:      Thu, 13 May 1999 15:54:39 +0200
From:      Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se>
To:        Henson Family <lhyenson@inter.net.il>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: a little help with gnome install
Message-ID:  <19990513155439.C14990@sr.se>
In-Reply-To: <37393960.8714EA24@inter.net.il>; from Henson Family on Wed, May 12, 1999 at 10:18:41AM %2B0200
References:  <37393960.8714EA24@inter.net.il>

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To make aa long story short. The easiest way to make ports recognize
3.3.3.1 is to create that directory in /var/db/pkg/ The directory should
be named XFree86-3.3.3.1 I made mine as a link to whatever X-directory
that was present there already!

On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 10:18:41AM +0200, Henson Family wrote:
> hi there got a little problem here.
> i've been battling with this problem for a few days but with no success.
> Naturally
> i checked FAQs and searched archives but again with no success.
> I just installed xfree86 with no problems and setup the config. so far
> so good.
> now i decided to install gnome. I went to the ports/x11/gnome and used
> make
> install just like with any port. one of the dependencies is imlib which
> has
> dependencies of it's own. giflib3.0 refused to finish building with no
> apparent
> reason. i decided to install the package and did so with no problems. i
> then
> wanted to continue the gnome install. the process continued with no
> problem with
> giflib. then came gtk. failure. it stopped after checking for X which it
> didn't
> find. It says it requires the x binaries. as i said i have x working
> perfectly.
> when i try to install the package it says could not find xfree863.3.3.1
> package
> (or something like that) but finishes the install. the install of gnome
> continues
> once again but again in another dependency stops with the same problem
> of not
> finding X. there are a lot of dependencies and i do not want to use the
> packages
> for each since it is obvious there is a problem there too. even if i
> mange to get
> around the problem i like to fix the problem not just override it.
> another thing that might be connected is that sometimes when i open
> /stand/sysinstall (in order to install the packages) it says some thing
> about
> read.toc or something of the nature. i can't be sure because the
> holographic shell
> covers it and i can't see what it says.
> i'd appreciate any reply on this matter.
> thanks in advance,
> Alon.
> 
> 
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