Re: editors/zim

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Whitehouse
. Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:52:12 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse To: User Questions Subject: editors/zim Hi, I have a problem with Zim which I wrote to the author about he replied and said; "I'm afraid version 0.29 is no longer

Re: editors/zim

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 31/08/2011 20:00, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote: Chris Whitehouse wrote on 31.08.2011 22:34: On 31/08/2011 14:13, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com wrote on 31.08.2011 09:29: Forwarding to ports@, which seems more likely to yield an answer to this particular inquiry than

Re: editors/zim

2011-09-02 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 02/09/2011 09:18, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote: Chris Whitehouse wrote on 01.09.2011 02:30: [skipping the details since original problem was solved] did you see that I had to add a line for MD5 to distinfo to make it work on my 8.1-R system? Though the last change was to remove MD5

Re: editors/zim

2011-09-03 Thread Chris Whitehouse
oops not sent to list... On 03/09/2011 00:34, Glen Barber wrote: Hi Chris, On 9/2/11 5:40 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: did you see that I had to add a line for MD5 to distinfo to make it work on my 8.1-R system? Though the last change was to remove MD5... It sounds to me parts of your ports

Re: ports-mgmt/portupgrade - Deprecated?

2012-04-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 12/04/2012 04:41, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: On 04/12/12 03:39, Eitan Adler wrote: On 11 April 2012 21:55, Bryan Drewery wrote: Hi Phillip, Your last commit on portupgrade [1] indicates to consider portmaster instead. What are the thoughts on this? Just the lack of a maintainer? Open PRs

Re: ports-mgmt/portupgrade - Deprecated?

2012-04-13 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 12/04/2012 11:09, Chris Rees wrote: Chris, I did misread your email-- portmanager appears absolutely fine, and is in no danger of removal :) That's good to know thank you. Sorry, portupgrade to portmanager was a bit of a sneaky corner. Chris __

FreeBSD Port: sdl-1.2.11_2,2

2008-02-17 Thread Chris Whitehouse
hi, [please could you cc me as I'm not subscribed, thanks] I'm trying to install projectm (http://projectm.sourceforge.net/). Instructions say install sdl-1.3 due to some feature being necessary. Can I keep sdl-1.2 and install sdl-1.3 without them conflicting? Any pointers for how to do it, o

xfe core dumps

2008-06-15 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi, Have just upgraded to xfe-1.19 and it core dumps on starting. xfe-1.18_1 did the same but xfe-1.04_2 was ok. %xfe Segmentation fault (core dumped) I looked at the xfe.core in ddd and it gives a stream of (no debugging symbols found) then at the end (no debugging symbols found)...(no d

Re: UPDATING

2012-12-24 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 24/12/2012 06:52, Anton Afanasyev wrote: I second this. While it may have made sense to include the "rebuild all ports. Here's an example of how" initially, including three versions of the rebuilding commands is a tad too much, and so replacing the wordiness with a simple "ACTIONS:" tag kind o

Re: FreeBSD Port: portmanager-0.4.1_9

2013-01-11 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 10/01/2013 22:31, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Walter Jansen wrote: So sorry, I obviously missed news about Portmaster which I have been using many years to update the installed ports. Is it gone forever? Is there a successor? port*manager* is gone, portmaster and portupgrade

Re: [Call for Test] [NEW PORT] net/mobile-broadband-provider-info-20130312

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 14/04/2013 14:12, nemysis wrote: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nemysisfreebsdp/files/Not_FreeBSD_Port/mobile-broadband-provider-info.shar I do sometimes use ppp over my mobile phone so I thought I'd try it. I get muji64# make "Makefile", line 32: Malformed conditional (${PORT_OPTIONS:MDOC

Re: Searching the port tree with portmaster?

2013-08-15 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 15/08/2013 16:45, LuKreme wrote: cd /usr/ports&& make search name=pear- cd /usr/ports&& make search name=pear- xname='ht(tp|ml)' Well, OK. That seems a lot more effort, and loses your current directory, but that does work. It's fugly though. %make -C /usr/ports quicksearch name=sudo

Re: x11/nvidia-driver builds; fails install (staging issue?)

2014-02-01 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 01/02/2014 17:31, David Wolfskill wrote: On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 07:14:54AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: My laptop (which I've had for about 4 years now) uses an Nvidia Quadro FX 770M (G96GL); after an initial (brief) test of using the nv driver, I switched to x11/nvidia-driver and have been

Adobe Flash update

2014-02-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi, A bbc news item reports that Adobe has released an emergency update to the flash player. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26045740 . I haven't found any other information however there is a version bump on Adobe's download page to linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.336. I downloaded inst

Re: Adobe Flash update

2014-02-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 05/02/2014 15:56, Eitan Adler wrote: On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi, And it seems to be working in firefox and opera. I can't find any other information about this so called emergency update, is the fact that there is a new version sufficient to reque

portmaster, pkg, virtualbox-ose

2014-02-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi all, I'm installing a new system (laptop) using 10.0R and pkgng. freshports.org says virtualbox-ose can be installed with pkg but # pkg install virtualbox-ose says no package in the repository. Ok so try # portmaster emulators/virtualbox-ose install all the dependencies with pkg then let it

Re: portmaster, pkg, virtualbox-ose

2014-02-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 25/02/2014 19:18, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, Chris Whitehouse wrote: ===>>> You can restart from the point of failure with this command line: portmaster emulators/virtualbox-ose ===>>> Exiting But restarting with # portmaster emulators/virtua

Re: portmaster, pkg, virtualbox-ose

2014-02-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 25/02/2014 20:20, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote: Am 25.02.2014 19:16 schrieb "Chris Whitehouse" : Hi all, I'm installing a new system (laptop) using 10.0R and pkgng. freshports.org says virtualbox-ose can be installed with pkg but # pkg install virtualbox-ose says no package in

Re: Port Request: Mono Moonlight

2014-03-29 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 29/03/2014 10:09, Thomas Mueller wrote: Silverlight 2 supports Microsoft /PlayReady/ Digital Rights Management (DRM). This is the DRM solution being used by Netflix's "Watch Instantly" service for streaming movies to PC (Windows-only) and Mac computers. Status: *unsupported* ==

Re: Firefox chokes up for several seconds... frequently

2014-06-04 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 03/06/2014 20:06, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I am still desperately seeking assistance to fix this problem. I have done everything I can to follow the Handbook instructions to the letter and Firefox is still choking up on the vast majority of web sites. (Apparently, almost every site on the

Re: Firefox chokes up for several seconds... frequently

2014-06-07 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 06/06/2014 21:38, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2014-06-04, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I have experienced firefox and/or xorg apparently freezing for several seconds which seems to be due to loading a page with a large image. That's a well-known problem. It can be worked around by se