Re: why so many errors with ports??
On 6 jun 2010, at 00:39, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas terie...@gmail.com wrote: hello, i am coming from the linux world i was a gentoo user and i have install on my second machine FBSD,i have made many formats but every time i try to install a graphical enviroment (such as xfce,kde) many many errors come up. i have heard that the ports are more stable than portage but with portage i didn't have so many errors (actually i can't recall a time when portage died) am i doing sth wrong or ports comes up with many errors?? P.S.: 1 week not i haven't manage to install a graphical enviroment thanks in advance __ I had lots of problems updating my ports due to the change in libgmp. According to the UPDATE file in /urs/ports portupgrade would automatically take care of it, however it didn't. Not sure if related to the OP's question, but maybe worth mentioning. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ 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: why so many errors with ports??
On 06/06/2010 1:39 π.μ., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: hello, i am coming from the linux world i was a gentoo user and i have install on my second machine FBSD,i have made many formats but every time i try to install a graphical enviroment (such as xfce,kde) many many errors come up. i have heard that the ports are more stable than portage but with portage i didn't have so many errors (actually i can't recall a time when portage died) am i doing sth wrong or ports comes up with many errors?? P.S.: 1 week not i haven't manage to install a graphical enviroment thanks in advance I suggest you perform just the base system install from CD, and compile everything else from an updated ports tree. If you happen to install any packages from the DVD (and esp. since i.e. FreeBSD 8.0 has been out for some time now) you will experience problems - unless you run a portupgrade first (so that all shared libraries etc. get updated to the latest versions). This is not worthy it for a new install - just proceed with the base system install, do not install any packages (doc packages are ok though) and do not even install the ports collection. After the base system is installed, run portsnap fetch extract to get an up-to date ports tree (from then on, you can update this tree with portsnap fetch update) And then go on with installing everything you wish. I usually start with the smallest console based stuff (bash, zip, unzip, rar, unrar, sudo, screen, etc) and continue with x11/xorg and WM or DE of choice. I never had this fail. Have a look at the FreeBSD Handbook's chapter 4,5,6 as well. ___ 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: why so many errors with ports??
On 06/06/2010 1:11 ?.?., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: i have FBSD 8.0 i have install the base system plus the bash shell from the CD.after the installiation of the system i install ports with portsnap and i update them with portmaster,no error came up,but now i receive errors from xfce4. @*Alejandro Imass* * * what do u mean when u say? Tip: in FBSD the word stable has a completely different meaning than in the LInux world ;-) (adding the list to the recipients) Don't install bash from CD. Bash will also install gettext, and this was recently updated. Almost every single port has a dependency on gettext and you happen to have the old version installed with bash, while the ports you are trying to install will need the new version. Start with just the base system and install bash from ports as well. ___ 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: why so many errors with ports??
On Sunday 06 of June 2010 13:32:56 Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 06/06/2010 1:11 ?.?., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: i have FBSD 8.0 i have install the base system plus the bash shell from the CD.after the installiation of the system i install ports with portsnap and i update them with portmaster,no error came up,but now i receive errors from xfce4. @*Alejandro Imass* * * what do u mean when u say? Tip: in FBSD the word stable has a completely different meaning than in the LInux world ;-) (adding the list to the recipients) Don't install bash from CD. Bash will also install gettext, and this was recently updated. Almost every single port has a dependency on gettext and you happen to have the old version installed with bash, while the ports you are trying to install will need the new version. Start with just the base system and install bash from ports as well. ___ 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 I believe that you should follow the quick guide that Manolis Kiagias wrote. That is the guide I followed and everything went fine and smooth. Try it: ftp://ftp.freebsdgr.org/pub/freebsd/freebsd.zip This is an unofficial guide, but it works and gives you a step-by-step understanding of your new operating system and it is written in Greek. ___ 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: why so many errors with ports??
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas terie...@gmail.com wrote: hello, i am coming from the linux world i was a gentoo user and i have install on my second machine FBSD,i have made many formats but every time i try to install a graphical enviroment (such as xfce,kde) many many errors come up. i have heard that the ports are more stable than portage but with portage i didn't have so many errors (actually i can't recall a time when portage died) am i doing sth wrong or ports comes up with many errors?? Need to specify FBSD version. I had many problems with the graphical stuff as well and decided to install all the heavy weight stuff with binary packages, besides it made no sense for me to wait I don't know how many hours to compile things like OpenOffice and Gnome. For other things I compile everything and hardly have any problems at all. Make sure your ports are up to date and that you have chosen a correct release for your needs. Tip: in FBSD the word stable has a completely different meaning than in the LInux world ;-) P.S.: 1 week not i haven't manage to install a graphical enviroment thanks in advance ___ 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 ___ 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
