From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 20 21:29:21 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 91972ECF for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 21:29:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-x229.google.com (mail-lb0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F588EAE for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 21:29:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f169.google.com with SMTP id p9so2026878lbv.28 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 13:29:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Cz3jitgqcICQpYiwOHMlFaWGcnK8F2zIa8OOHuMgNfo=; b=Eeo+bGS9/fBmejuoAqXnQqP7hiKO9XYiLxWPLZBep6Yf+WIOykgfjon/WHHnYBNO7z S0XZz7p7svAnd+j0ihi+k9/LCCY57pG+lLWGIqvW1sB6vSnMJAdJA3d6OP6TOF3Rl/nj PvpCvAN2TEegOReyYhmqgvpX/4zcRDoK+tuIVpsTr+bu8t5U6ybZ+GatGfFXH7IZt+Xb MCOugEiMop8/MSE8AMNBXVcwPmPv9mIz/4laqRjqQ+auYzzicTDzqmYnO9by4ovvkH0E Rrt36LNELb/mqPwkdTOIgFVxBL0vmNuOhffJJ1/3VG2lxzrLexxImh/Y3MNgf6jL+aC6 6bGQ== X-Received: by 10.112.136.37 with SMTP id px5mr547394lbb.36.1416518959080; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 13:29:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from blazon-pc.rw.local ([78.84.244.14]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id x8sm777442lae.24.2014.11.20.13.29.18 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 20 Nov 2014 13:29:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <546E5D2D.6010603@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 23:29:17 +0200 From: Alnis Morics User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: olvwm on amd64 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 21:29:21 -0000 On 11/20/2014 23:01, Luciano Rottava da Silva wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to setup up a new FreeBSD desktop at home based on the new 10.1 > release. > > As usual, my wm of choice is olvwm. Well, didn't know ports/packages are > not available for amd64, only for i386. > > Searching on the Internet I've read in many places the problem is with > xview and there's no hope for 64-bit platform. > > But then I've found the following website: > > http://physionet.caregroup.harvard.edu/physiotools/xview/ > > So, question is, is it possible to run a i386 Linux package in my amd64 > Free machine? Would it be possible run the i386 FreeBSD packages xview and > olvwm? > > How can I run my beloved olvwm? There must be a way! > > Thanks & Regards, > Luciano. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Of course ports are available for amd64. Just run portsnap fetch extract to download and extract the ports tree. And olvwm is in ports. To install it, run: cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/olvwm make install clean The manual chapter on how to work with ports: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html -Alnis