ok thank you
On 10/18/18 1:53 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2018/10/18 12:59, Veraldi Riccardo wrote:
Hello,
I installed OpenBSD 6.3 on my Ultra 45.
Everything works fune but when I go to install a desktop environment like
gnome or mate the pkg installation fails because many dependencies are
missing.
Unfortunately the reality of much "portable" software today is that
relatively little caters for much outside Linux amd64 and the further
you get from that the harder it is to make it work.
The GNOME port maintainers do a great job getting it to work as
well as it does on OpenBSD at all but this is already a huge amount
of work already, porting to a less common and harder-to-support
architecture would just be an impossible amount of extra work for them
and realistically never going to be useful enough to enough people to be
worthwhile.
On 6.3 you might try xfce (the packages are there, but I couldn't say
if it's likely to actually work).
6.4 packages for sparc64 haven't finished building yet but looking
at the previous snapshot there are likely to be on the order of 1000
fewer than in 6.3, it's unlikely that xfce will be built there.
