On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:23:06AM +1030, Matthew Smith wrote: > Hi Folks > > My second day on OpenBSD after many on AIX, Linux, etc. I am making this > move on couple of machines as I want to make use of the kernel PPS facility > so that they can run as time servers. I am also considering OpenBSD as an > alternative to Solaris and Linux when I rebuild my office server later this > year. (I want the unholy combination of RAID-Z, PPS and the ability to run > Stallion serial cards which neither Solaris nor Linux can deliver.) > > I have done a couple of installations, one on an i386 machine, the other on > a SPARC 64. Trying to add the gettext package (I was actually trying to > install vim in the first instance, I get this error: > > # pkg_add gettext-0.14.6p0 > libiconv-1.9.2p3: complete > Can't install gettext-0.14.6p0: lib not found expat.8.0 > Dependencies for gettext-0.14.6p0 resolve to: libiconv-1.9.2p3 (todo: > libiconv-1.9.2p3) > Full dependency tree is libiconv-1.9.2p3
You'll have to install libexpat. In 4.2 (which I guess is what you're running), this library is provided by the x-packages. There's a FAQ entry on this, see http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade42.html#libexpat for more details. Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd PS: Thanks for including a dmesg, completeness rocks ;) -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/
