FreeBSD java installation help!

[Ronald Klop]

On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:17:43 +0200, Kavitha H Yogaraj <ykavitha at uw.edu>  
wrote:

> Hey Ronald & Horst,
>
> Thank you very much for these two instructions,
> portsnap fetch
> portsnap extract
>
> I at least understood what people are talking online -about creating cd
> /usr/ports.... etc...
>
> Now, as Horst said, I'm first installing Xorg-libraries by this
> cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg-libraries
> make install
>
>
> But, it looks like there is some package existing already, I get this  
> error
> message...
>
> ===>  Installing for pkgconf-0.9.2_1
>
> ===>  pkgconf-0.9.2_1 conflicts with installed package(s):
>       pkg-config-0.25_1
>
>       They install files into the same place.
>       Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1).
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/devel/pkgconf.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/libdmx.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xorg-libraries.
>
>
> x11/xorg was not installed... If I go head and delete this existing  
> package
> will it create dependencies of deletion? because  right now, I'm the only
> one doing this in my lab all others are on break. I don't want to mess up
> the running system.

You can safely remove pkg-config and run make install again so it will  
install pkgconf.
Pkg-config is only used while compiling and linking. Not while running the  
program.

Ronald.