Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 06:32:23 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Tadimeti Keshav <keshav_tadimeti@yahoo.co.uk>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports installation (long) Message-ID: <40617FD7.9080305@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <20040324031649.71936.qmail@web25003.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20040324031649.71936.qmail@web25003.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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Tadimeti Keshav wrote: >all, >thanks for the suggestions. >1. CVSUP: I tried CVSup = it updated my ports >skeletons, but while compiling XMMS 1.2.10, it needed >a newer version of libogg, which could not be >installed because mplayer-esound and artsd were using >an older version of libogg. (mplayer had installed by >then). > >I thought of doing a portupgrade to libogg, but this >would have broken artsd and mplayer-esound. Is this a >bug with the latest ports tree? > Your on the right track here....read this: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html >2. MAKE FETCH-RECURSIVE: Then I deleted the entire >ports tree and installed it fresh from CD-ROM; then cd >to /usr/ports/multimedia/xmms, then make >fetch-recursive. This went on for an hour. It tried to >fetch xc... and fetched libxml2. I killed this and did >a simple make, which downloaded the correct libxml and > 40 mins later, xmms was built. > >3. Mplayer: mplayer built fine (except for a glitch >which would download all skins regardless of the >options chosen). But when I do: gmplayer &, I get a >black patch in the bottom right corner of the screen, >which should be the GUI. > >3 hours later, I felt I may have been better off with >Mandrake Linux, with Xine,Mplayer,xmms and other >goodies installed within 1 hr. For now I am sticking >with FreeBSD, but I'll soon install dual boot Mandrake >Linux 9.1 for a usable computer. > If you want to use the ports system then it is allways going to take longer, this is part of the reason that FreeBSD also has the package system: Read Chapter 4 Installing Applications: Packages and Ports: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html
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