From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 30 22:55:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD6A1065672 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:55:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E53708FC0A for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:55:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p9UMtKNH025376; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:55:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id p9UMtKG0025373; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:55:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:55:20 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Zantgo In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:55:20 -0600 (MDT) Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: The ports are really funcional? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:55:21 -0000 On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Zantgo wrote: > What happens is that I tried to install things on the ports, but > almost no one serves me, I've only been able to install firefox, I > tried also install KDE, GNOME and KFCE, but I have been many errors, > commonly solocionables, for example I had to modify "REFRESH" to > "true", but also to get out other errors, commonly have a solution, > but is a great problem to have to spend all his time fixing bugs. > Please tell me if it is natural to every time I download large > modifying ports so, if so, then why say "functional"? Yes, ports work well. From the description, it's difficult to tell what is causing the problem. Please supply additional information, like what version of FreeBSD and the exact output of one of the errors (script(1) is useful for that). Also see the section in the Handbook about packages and ports: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html Translations of the Handbook can be found at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/ in the books subdirectory.