I used the advice from the blog called gab software. Perhaps he was wrong. I am willing to reinstall. I have no personal data to lose on this old box.
Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote: >On 12/19/11 14:39, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2011-12-19, Richard Thornton <thornton.rich...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Do a simple clean 5.0 install. One would assume any browser package in the >>> packages folder would install. None do for me on sparc, but with a clean >>> 4.9 install all 4.9 packages install. I am not a Unix specialist by any >>> means but I do know how to type pkg_add . >> >> Please send a mail to ports@ detailing exactly what you are doing (what >> you're typing, what PKG_PATH is set to if you're using it, the contents >> of /etc/pkg.conf if you're using that) and what output you see. >> >> This is the first I've heard of any major problem with 5.0 release >> packages on any arch, if there is a problem obviously we need to know >> what went wrong so we can avoid it happening in future, but before >> digging into that we need to first rule out incorrect procedure. > >Don't bother, he's doing something very wrong. This is a PEBKAC >diagnostic issue, not an OpenBSD issue. > >Just happened to have a blade100 (the machine he named) sitting here, >just loaded it up, but not into production yet, so blew it away (it was >at -current, of course) and did exactly what he said: > >* simple 5.0 install from CD (only non-default was to use ntpd) >* set PKG_PATH to my local mirror >* pkg_add xxxterm >* pkg_add firefox36 (didn't seem to be newer ones for sparc64) >* pkg_add dillo >* pkg_add conkeror >* pkg_add midori >* pkg_add kazehakase >* pkg_add links+2.2p2 >* pkg_add elinks >* pkg_add w3m-0.5.3 >* pkg_add links FINALLY! an error! conflict with links+. Package >management system worked fine :) > >Other than links after links+, all installed fine. > >Starting them all at the same time on a blade100 with only 512M RAM was >not my most productive move, but they all seemed to be trying to work, >until something ran out of something and X blew me back to a command >prompt :) > >(I gotta play with some of these alternate browsers) > >Personally, I think he's screwing up between sparc and sparc64. He's >being VERY sloppy with the platform name_s_ in his posting, so I suspect >it is safe to assume he's doing that elsewhere. > >Nick.
