From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 19 11:02:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA07773 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 May 1997 11:02:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA07747 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 11:02:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (shovey@buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA22666; Mon, 19 May 1997 13:55:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 13:55:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve To: Burton Sampley cc: dmaddox@scsn.net, ashworth@cs.montana.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motif? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 19 May 1997, Burton Sampley wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 1997, Donald J. Maddox wrote: > > > On Sun, May 18, 1997 at 10:31:14PM +0000, Justin Ashworth wrote: > > > Is there any way to make use of ports that require Motif without > > > actually going out and buying the package from DEC? Will Motif even run > > > on FreeBSD? Nedit and GIMP both require Motif, and those would be handy > > > ports to have. Is there a workaround for this? I recall having installed > > > Nedit on a non-Motif'd FreeBSD box in the past and it ran without any > > > problems. The port didn't require Motif back then. I've tried commenting > > > out the line that says Motif is required, but it still pukes. I've tried > > > installing lesstif to see if that could work as a replacement but it > > > doesn't. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Most ports that require Motif are also available as packages that are > > statically linked with Motif, so you can install the package and run it > > without having Motif installed on your system. > > > > Motif _is_ available for FreeBSD for ~$150 from XiG. I believe the > > url is http://www.xinside.com/. > > > Actually it's been changed to http://www.xig.com > > Just to use things that require the libs etc, I found lesstif works fine. Thats in the ports section I think.