Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:54:28 +0100 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Interactive Port Message-ID: <20100831225428.GA42850@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100831193935.GA1427@bsd.remdog.net> References: <20100831193421.GA2695@bsd.remdog.net> <20100831193935.GA1427@bsd.remdog.net>
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:39:35PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: > > On 2010.08.31 12:34:21 -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: > > In attempting to install /usr/ports/print/dvips I got the error message > > that dvips is an interactive port, and I can't remember how to handle > > that. Could I please get a heads up there. Thank you. > > > > OK...I commented out the 'batch' entry in make.conf. Now I get this > error message: > > ===> dvips-5.76 conflicts with installed package(s): > teTeX-base-3.0_20 > teTeX-texmf-3.0_6 > > The whole problem is that I am trying to get muttprint to work, and my > understanding is that it is dependent on teTeX for its operation. But > when I tried to print I got an error message telling me that the print > operation needs to see dvips. So I'm not exactly sure what is going on > here. > teTeX comes with dvips IIRC, which is why you're getting the error. For printing from mutt, I use the following in ~/.muttrc set print_command="a2ps -1 > ~/mail.ps; gv ~/mail.ps" Obviously, that views the postcript file first & then I print from gv. gv & a2ps are in ports. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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