From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 9 16:34:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19B7115047 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:34:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA16752; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:32:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:32:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Tougas Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems installing ports... In-Reply-To: <000001be8299$9f000b60$26d0b8a1@damien> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Tougas wrote: > Here is the problem: > After installing FreeBSD, I proceeded to install some of the ports I wanted. > I did this by copying the tarballs to the /usr/ports/distfiles directory and > doing the 'make install' procedure. This worked fine. Afterwards, I > decided to install another port, however, the version on my CD was older > than the version I wanted. I downloaded and installed the 227update.tgz > using pkg_add (I understand this is to allow me to use the newer ports on my > older version of FreeBSD). I downloaded the updated port skeleton and > installed it over the older skeleton, and I downloaded the tarball and again > placed it in the /usr/ports/distfiles directory. Now when I attempt to > install the port, the 'make install' procedure does not find the tarball. Can you be more specific? Please list error message(s). > Another Question: > I have tried installing precompiled packages a couple of times, but every > time I try to run the program it says that an elf library is missing from > /usr/libexec. Where do I find these elf libraries? Does this mean that the > program is actually compiled for linux and that I need to be running in > linux emulation mode? You're trying to install 3.X packages on a 2.2.X system. Only install 2.2.X packages on 2.2.X systems. 3.X uses a different binary format. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message