From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 2 19:16:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BA1F37B401 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:16:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D1BB43FBF for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:16:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (root@tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h233Gcm17769; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:16:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.12.6/8.11.3) id h233Gbf0079761; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:16:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:16:37 -0800 From: Gary D Kline To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Ok, KDE/Help .. after my moans what now ? Message-ID: <20030303031637.GA70732@tao.thought.org> References: <20030303011927.GA4016@willow.raggedclown.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030303011927.GA4016@willow.raggedclown.intra> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 16 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 02:19:27AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Hello, > Ok so portupgrde did not work in installing the latest KDE. > I cannot get KDE to run at all. > I get errors about libintl being missing. > Plus a mysterious and new requirement to tell make I have a Matrox 450 > card. > Plus the fact I cannot even re-intall KDE from the 4.7 ISO CD's. > I get the highly useful message "Error -1". > > So, in my attempts to portupgrade, I get 0 points. > > Now, correct me if I am wrong. > The tag for ports should always be ".", since the do not follow any kind > of upgrade system like the release does. > Why does portupgrade try to find 4.8-PRELEASE ports ? > This is nonsense. > From where is it getting this idea ? > > I promise,if someone is capable of explaining this to me, I will write a > HOWTO. > > Because the whole frigging thing is just useless. That is my experience. I've been having much the same experience. Trying to upgrade things let go too long on my 4.7-PRE system has been nearly' futile. I like having src, like most of us hackers. But take Redhat that a friend installed on another system. It sucks over ports and plugs them in and adjusts the dependencies and the newer Linux programs Just-Work. I tried to get the FBSD vers of mozilla working (with plugins) for a month. It wasn't until I installed "linux-mozilla" that everythng worked here. Flash, shockwave, real-audio... Flames to /dev/null, gentlemen. I know that RH is commercial. Still, wouldn't it be "allowable" to check out their ports system?? gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message