Re: Software installasion (Was: Re: Wine without X)
Mel Flynn wrote: On Saturday 28 March 2009 13:06:44 Robert Huff wrote: Mel Flynn writes: Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible for one reason oranother, place to download application source to? Most systems I use or inherited use a variation of ~/src ~/cvs or ~/svn, where src are the tarballs + their extracted source and cvs/svn checkouts and/or exports. I have never done this, but if I were running a private ports tree I would be tempted to root it (if not on a separate partition) at /usr/priv_ports or something similar and have the structure minic /usr/ports whereever possible. The name would then be semi-intuitive, and a simple change of a few environment variables (perhaps in the login file of an account dedicated to working on those ports) would be all it took to change the framework. A private portstree (as in: uses the ports framework for compiling and installing software, including registering the port in /var/db/pkg) is best kept in /usr/ports/local. One needs to set VALID_CATEGORIES=local in /etc/make.conf and optionally add SUBDIR+=local in /usr/ports/Makefile.local if one cares about the ports ending up in the INDEX and make search. Ideally software not registering itself inside /var/db/pkg (as in software compiled by hand) should NOT be installed in $LOCALBASE (/usr/local by default) as there is no guarantee through the ports CONFLICTS mechanism, that a port overwrites files installed by your hand-compiled software. Many thanks to all who have helped on this one. I managed to get wine installed without X and it works :) However my application doesn't :( Most of the errors are concerned with MS Visual C++ libraries, which I have unconfirmed indications might be solved with 'winetricks' http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks. However, I think using winetricks means I need X anyway. So, I will leave it for now and try again after a bit more research. Thanks for all the ideas about where to download/install custom apps - the one that appeals most at this stage is a jail, partly because I have never played with them, and I think I should progress my learning in that direction. However I find the other answers very useful insights too. Given that winetricks calls itself a 'quick and dirty script', along with the fact that the current wine port doesn't work, I think I see another manual installation coming on. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Software installasion (Was: Re: Wine without X)
--On March 29, 2009 11:03:03 AM -0500 Barnaby Scott b...@waywood.co.uk wrote: Many thanks to all who have helped on this one. I managed to get wine installed without X and it works :) However my application doesn't :( Most of the errors are concerned with MS Visual C++ libraries, which I have unconfirmed indications might be solved with 'winetricks' http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks. However, I think using winetricks means I need X anyway. So, I will leave it for now and try again after a bit more research. Sounds like missing dlls. You *may* be able to just copy the missing dlls into the wine lib directory and get the application to work. I would examine the error messages closely to see what dlls it trying to find and can't. Paul Schmehl, If it isn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ** WARNING: Check the headers before replying ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Software installasion (Was: Re: Wine without X)
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Barnaby Scott wrote: Thanks for all the ideas about where to download/install custom apps - the one that appeals most at this stage is a jail, partly because I have never played with them, and I think I should progress my learning in that direction. However I find the other answers very useful insights too. Given that winetricks calls itself a 'quick and dirty script', along with the fact that the current wine port doesn't work, Today's updated wine-1.1.18,1 port works now. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Software installasion (Was: Re: Wine without X)
On Saturday 28 March 2009 13:06:44 Robert Huff wrote: Mel Flynn writes: Can I ask one more possibly really dumb question, to which I can find no answer: Is there a 'conventional', or sensible for one reason oranother, place to download application source to? Most systems I use or inherited use a variation of ~/src ~/cvs or ~/svn, where src are the tarballs + their extracted source and cvs/svn checkouts and/or exports. I have never done this, but if I were running a private ports tree I would be tempted to root it (if not on a separate partition) at /usr/priv_ports or something similar and have the structure minic /usr/ports whereever possible. The name would then be semi-intuitive, and a simple change of a few environment variables (perhaps in the login file of an account dedicated to working on those ports) would be all it took to change the framework. A private portstree (as in: uses the ports framework for compiling and installing software, including registering the port in /var/db/pkg) is best kept in /usr/ports/local. One needs to set VALID_CATEGORIES=local in /etc/make.conf and optionally add SUBDIR+=local in /usr/ports/Makefile.local if one cares about the ports ending up in the INDEX and make search. Ideally software not registering itself inside /var/db/pkg (as in software compiled by hand) should NOT be installed in $LOCALBASE (/usr/local by default) as there is no guarantee through the ports CONFLICTS mechanism, that a port overwrites files installed by your hand-compiled software. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
