Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:17:26 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: charon@freethought.org Cc: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 and packages Message-ID: <36B01D16.2C6D9D15@uk.radan.com> References: <3.0.5.32.19990127154759.00a2b830@mail> <3.0.5.32.19990127235704.00a2d140@mail>
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charon@freethought.org wrote: > > At 02:01 AM 1/28/99 +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > >I guess you may use; > > > > -f Force installation to proceed even if prerequisite packages are > > not installed or the requirements script fails. Although > pkg_add > > will still try to find and auto-install missing prerequisite > > packages, a failure to find one will not be fatal. > > > >I think that you will still be able to use packages without any problem > >even though you see some error messages. > > > > > >On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 charon@freethought.org wrote: > > > >> The packages I'm trying to install require XFree86, but don't recognize > >> that I have it on my system because I didn't install it via port (I > >> downloaded it from www.XFree86.org and followed their directions). What do > >> I need to do to make window managers, etc. recognize that I have X > installed? > > When I force a pkg_add, I get a message that dependency registration is > incomplete. Does this cause a problem? The fact that XFree86 _isn't_ a > package makes me wonder why the system is looking for it to be registered > in /var/db/pkg in the first place. I can't install XFree via port because > my laptop (the FreeBSD machine) isn't networked... any suggestions? > This has come up before. Some packages seem to have XFree86 included as a dependency, even if you install it from the CD-ROM (as a distribution) it still doesn't have an entry in /var/db/pkg. An easy workround is to create a dummy entry in /var/db/pkg, using empty files, for XFree86 using the version number that the package is looking for. HTH > -charon > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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