Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:15:01 -0700 From: "Gary Frerking (TurboPower)" <garyf@turbopower.com> To: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: non-X install? Message-ID: <714AD8888E79D211978700A0C90DFDB72F7362@inetmail1.turbopower.com>
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Checked the docs, checked the FAQs. If this is covered, I missed it. The FreeBSD install (and package system) seems to be geared towards installing X (or having X installed) -- is there a way around this? A couple examples: installing, then subsequently running cvsup or the full vim package on a non-X machine gives me an error like 'Shared object "libXaw.so.6" not found'. I've done some Google searching on this, and see various answers like "you have to have X installed to run that" or "recompile with the X support turned off". So I understand the problem (I think) -- but I'd like to know if there's a better way to avoid the problem in the first place? Do most people install X? I would guess a reasonable number of people don't. From what I've seen of FreeBSD, I like it (been using it a couple months now) -- but this is one thing that *seems* like it could be cleaner in some way. I've been using Linux for a few years now and don't recall running into anything similar under similar circumstances -- I use binary RPMs to install and update things, and the apps that optionally use X just seem to deal with it if no X is installed (or maybe the system deals with it, or maybe RPM doesn't install X dependant things, I dunno -- it just works). Hope I didn't touch any nerves by mentioning the "L" word, but it's my best point of comparison at the moment. I'm actually pretty happy with FreeBSD overall, and I plan to buy 4.3 when it becomes available -- but I'd sure appreciate it if you showed me the trick to avoiding problems like this while using packages in a non-X world (or consider making changes if necessary in the future). Thanks much. -- Gary Frerking -- gary@frerking.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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