On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:11:52AM +1100, paul thodiyil wrote: > I am sort of new to FreeBSD and still learning the ropes. I am having great > trouble installing WINE and indeed other packages on my AMD64 desktop > running FreeBSD ver 6.0. I had added this package during the installation > process. > With the 'whereis wine' command, I get: /usr/ports/emulators/wine > Then when I type pkg_add wine, I get 'can't stat package file wine' > Could someone tell me what I could be doing wrong?
Apart from the fact that wine only works on i386, you're confusing packages and ports. The command 'pkg_add wine' tells pkg-add to install a package from a file called 'wine' in the current directory. You can read the manual page for pkg_add with the command 'man pkg_add'. /usr/ports/emulators/wine is the ports directory you can use to build wine. To do so, do the following as root: cd /usr/ports/emulators/wine make make install clean On an amd64 machine, you'll get an error when running make, because wine is only for i386. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt
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