Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:21:20 -0600 From: "Gene" <fbsd@brightstar.bomgardner.net> To: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE4 port hangs, archives - handbook no help. Message-ID: <20090320130542.M13925@brightstar.bomgardner.net> In-Reply-To: <200903200001.29208.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <20090319234730.M13060@brightstar.bomgardner.net> <200903200001.29208.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>
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On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:01:29 -0800, Mel Flynn wrote > On Thursday 19 March 2009 15:50:22 Gene wrote: > > Morning All: > > > > I've searched the archives and googled and generally applied what I found > > to no good effect. > > > > While installing the kde4 port, I got to libspectre. The libspectre port > > insists that I must have libgs to compile it. > > What pulls in this library? It doesn't for me. But I'm cups and > generally printer allergic. > > -- > Mel > _______________________________________________ Thanks for the reply, I'm also using cups in my kde 3 machine and plan to use it in kde 4. libgs is required, via libspectre, by evince, kdegraphics-4, kipi-plugins- kde4, the kde4 metaport, and so on. Actually, it was originally the "ghostscript-gpl" port that was called for, and I'm not sure what depended on it. I have discovered, however, that there was no port later than 8.60, and it appears to have dissappeared from the ports collection altogether (at least according to www.FreeBSD.org/ports, and portsnap didn't help either). So I manually installed the ghostscript- 8.63 port which supplied the necessary 8.63 libraries. For some reason, though, the libspectre script thinks it's seeing a version <= 8.60. Maybe I'll try uninstalling the ghostscript-gpl port and retrying libspectre. We'll see. IHN, Gene -- To everything there is a season, And a time to every purpose under heaven.
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