ORBit2-2.12.1 won't install

Adam Weinberger adamw at FreeBSD.org
Sun Mar 20 09:41:49 PST 2005


Adam Weinberger wrote:
> Mark Nowiasz wrote:
> 
>> Am Sonntag, den 20.03.2005, 17:30 +0100 schrieb Pascal HOARAU:
>>
>>> Hi
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Pascal,
>>
>>
>>> I have the same problem today (garnome / vmware / gentoo)
>>> Did you find how to correct that ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Well, not really - I used some quick and dirty hack. I used pkg_add to
>> install previous ORBit (as a binary version). After that, I tried to
>> install (with an enforced install) 2.12.1 on top of it, which was not
>> totally sucessful - but it tricked FreeBSD in believing that 2.12.1 was
>> installed (when in fact, a mixture of 2.12.1 and 2.something was
>> running). (Yes, it was quick and dirty.. but I didn't have to time to
>> debug the problem :-)). Furthermore, I had to create some new symlinks
>> to make this hack work (libglib-2.0.so.400, libgobject-2.0.so.400,
>> libgmodule-2.0.so.400, libgthread-2.0.so.400 to the respective *.600
>> versions)
> 
> 
> Wow.
> 
> We need to add this to the list of things you can do to invalidate your 
> right to free help from the FreeBSD GNOME team.
> 
> This, of course, says nothing about your ability to install a GNOME 
> version for which development hasn't even officially begun yet.

Oosp. You were referring to the ORBit2 version there, weren't ya. My bad.

# Adam


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