From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 28 22:05:53 2012 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 A9A03106566B for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:05:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikes@siralan.org) Received: from mail.suso.org (mail.suso.org [66.244.94.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FBDB8FC13 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:05:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c-98-223-201-170.hsd1.in.comcast.net (c-98-223-201-170.hsd1.in.comcast.net [98.223.201.170]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.suso.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67C0113821C; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:33:08 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:30:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael L. Squires" X-X-Sender: mikes@familysquires.net To: Henry Olyer In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20120128151812.GA97442@slackbox.erewhon.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When I put up any version of FBSD I usually try to install Maxima. Which fails because the sub-install of gnuplot fails. 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: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:05:53 -0000 I've only installed a few programs from packages at installation time; almost all of my installations and upgrades have been by compiling from ports and then upgrading (with recompilation) using portupgrade. This is a habit I got into a long time ago, and which I continue without any specific reason, other than it's always worked for me. One workaround would be to install gnuplot from ports (compiling it) and then installing maxima from packages. My wild guess is that there's something either different between the package version of gnuplot and the version created by a compile from ports or that there is something different between the system on which the packages version of gnuplot was created and your system. I've run into a few programs where dependencies weren't handled correctly; in those cases I've had to manually install (by compiling) the dependency and then continuing with the installation of the program itself. Sorry you've been having problems (and gotten less than sympathetic responses). Mike Squires mikes at siralan.org UN*X at home since 1986