Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 01:57:23 -0500 From: The Babbler <bts@babbleon.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: teTex problems w/ port and package - back to Linux? Message-ID: <3A9CA153.80E2A3DA@babbleon.org>
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Ok, I've posted to freebsd-questions; I've sent mail to the porter (br@netland.inka.de -- no reply). I've tried hacking, and I've tried installing the package. I'm about to throw in the towel on FreeBSD and just go back to Linux. Can anybody help? I have 4.2-RELEASE from the ISO image on the web site. When I try to install the teTeX port, I get a message that there is no app-defaults file for xdi, and it quits with an install error: gmake: *** [install] Error 1 *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/print/teTeX. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/teTeX. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/teTeX. Now, I had xdvi installed before teTeX, and a search of the questions archive suggeste that this might be a problem. So I pkg-deleted it. It was still there (!?), so I rm'ed the executable. No dice. I figured out the the intall script was crapping out in the work/teTeX*/Makefile script when it tried to do texconfig, so I ran texconfig by hand; it fails for me, too. So I changed texconfig to an echo command; this let it run to completion and register; then I did a deinstall, in the hopes that that would wipe out whatever conflicted. It printed lots of error messages and seemed to remove stuff, but I still get the error on re-install when I restore the Makefile. I have checked FreeBSD-current, and it has the same version number for the port. I got the current STABLE *package* for teTeX, and it fails, too; as follows: i7500# pkg_add -t ./tmp/instmp.XXXXXX -v teTeX*.* Requested space: 154888784 bytes, free space: 2598464512 bytes in /tmp/instmp.k13176 Package `teTeX-1.0.7' depends on `png-1.0.9'. pkg_add: could not find package png-1.0.9 ! Package `teTeX-1.0.7' depends on `libwww-5.3.1'. - already installed. pkg_add: 1 package addition(s) failed I really am at wit's end. I like most aspects of FreeBSD better than Linux, but if it can't run TeX I will have no choice but to go back. I'd really hate to change O/S's again, so I'm really hoping that there's some help available here. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" bts@babbleon.org Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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