there is an excellent blog called "www.openbsd.org/faq/". Check out the advice there. It's pretty awesome.
On 2011 Dec 20 (Tue) at 07:49:11 -0500 (-0500), Richard Thornton wrote: :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 <[email protected]> wrote: : :>On 12/19/11 14:39, Stuart Henderson wrote: :>> On 2011-12-19, Richard Thornton <[email protected]> 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. : -- Drew's Law of Highway Biology: The first bug to hit a clean windshield lands directly in front of your eyes.
