Freebsd 5.4 cannot fetch xfree86?
Björn König
bkoenig at cs.tu-berlin.de
Mon Jun 27 08:31:39 GMT 2005
perikillo wrote:
> I install freebsd 5.4 Release, with xorg i have problems with my
> kbd,
Tell your problem. It don't think that it is unsolvable.
> and i decide to install the old friend XFree86-4, i read the
> handbook about, the example say:
> test# pkg_add -r XFree86
>
> But my system dosent found nothing, the answer is something about
> "Cannot fetch xfree86 packages from ftp.freebsd.org.
>
> There is something else i need to do? or where i can change the
> default URL? OR wich URL have those pakages ? Any help i will
> apreciate.
As far as I know there are no official XFree86 packages at
ftp.freebsd.org and mirrors anymore. I suggest to build XFree86 from
sources:
echo X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xfree86-4 >> /etc/make.conf
cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4
make install clean
Björn
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