More newbie questions-again?

[backyard]

--- "E. Gad" <p1agu313 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> backyard <backyard1454-bsd at yahoo.com> wrote: 
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> --- "E. Gad" 
>  wrote:
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> > 
> > Svein Halvor Halvorsen 
> > wrote: Subhro wrote:
> > > yourself. However remember to cvsup your ports
> > tree before you start
> > > using it to get the required software. Refer to
> > the handbook for
> > > understanding how ports work.
> > 
> > For most people portsnap would be a better way of
> > updating one's ports
> > tree. Firstly, it's in the base system and thus
> > doesn't require any
> > third party software. Secondly, most newbies find
> it
> > easier to use.
> 
> as long as your remember to install it as a port
> during the install or add it with sysinstall or
> pkg_add. cvsup-nogui then doing a:
> 
> make update in /usr/src or /usr/ports will
> automagically use the default examples and update
> things. As long as your going from a 6.x base it
> will
> continue on Rel_6.x. If you started with 5.x it will
> continue to update 5.x. Ports will always update to
> the latest and greatest as it uses a different tag.
> I
> find this very easy, I'm also afraid of change.
> Though
> portsnap is more secure because it uses encryption
> and
> I've heard signs the updates. To each their own
> though
> one way of the other updating your SRC and PORTS is
> an
> important thing to learn how to do.
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> >  Svein Halvor
> > 
> > Hmm porstnap seemed to have worked ok. I installed
> > the portupgrade suite through pkg_add. 
> >  Somethings still not happy. Because when  took a
> > stab at installing:
> >  nvidia-driver
> >  nvidia-glx
> >  xorg and compat 5 as a dependency for
> > nvidia-driver/nvidia-glx
> >  
> >  nvidia can't find something and I don't know what
> > because the first part of the message scrolls of
> the
> > screen- (remember I'm not in xorg yet)
> 
> if you don't have X yet then I don't think the
> nvidia
> drivers will install because they are quite
> dependant
> on X.
> 
> no X required here...
> hit scroll lock and then PgUp and PgDn this will let
> you view the scroll back buffer and see what you
> cannot see. the up and down arrows will work too.
> 
> 
> >  
> >  -What the newbie here has done so far to help
> > itself-
> >  Just as a guess-reinstalled linux_base because I
> > remembered reading on a Just Some Guys 'Blog abut
> > the same problem
> >  thinking it couldn't hurt anything since I hadn't
> > installed hardly much of anything-
> >  cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base.
> >  make deinstall
> >  make clean
> >  make install
> >  Ran that for 15 minuts-it ran into some sort of 
> >  "error 1!" (repeated 5 times)
> >  Undaunted-re- did make etc.
> >  Somethng about rpm something not found 
> >  (cd'd into linux_bas-fc4)
> >  ran make install clean-but it says it can't find
> > the  ftp servers-
> >  Any guesses what I'm doing wrong?
> >  
> 
> install archivers/rpm should fix that but it should
> know to do it itself. Unless your stuck using that
> particular dist of linux I would try to gentoo
> stage3
> base. a chroot to the /compat/linux and you can use
> their portage system to install and update linux
> apps
> fairly easy. The reason I got away from linux in the
> first place was the nightmare of updating it, but at
> least Gentoo uses a "ports" system that makes it
> less
> of a nightmare. Of course I am biased because I do
> run
> Gentoo on my laptop and would want the emulation
> base
> to be compatible if I package up native Gentoo apps
> to
> my FreeBSD system.
> 
> -brian
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>  
> 
> About that nvidia-thing here's the messages:
>  libtool cannot find the library
> /usr/local/lib/libintl.la or undhandled argument in
> /usr/local/libintl.la
>  gmake[2]:***[dump] Error 1
>  gmak[2]:leaving director
> /usr/ports/archivers/rpm/work/rpm-3.0.6/tools
>  gmake[2]:[all-recursive]-Error 1
>  gmake[1]leaving director
> /usr/ports/archivers/work/rpm-3.0.6
>  gmake *** [all-recursive-am- Error 2
>  Error code 2
>  Stop in /usr/ports/archivers/rpm
>  Errror code 1
>  Stop in /usr/ports/archivers/rpm
>  Error code 1 
>  
>  ---snip----
>  stop in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc4  
>  /* Why is it having issues with this? */
>  Stop in /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver.
>  command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa
> /tmp/portinstall542.0 make reinstall
>  **Fix the installation problem and try again 
>  ***Listing failed packages(*skiped/ !FAILED)
>  !xll/driver(install error)
>  packages processed: 0....
>  
> 
>  		

well it looks like gettext is messed up or rpm can't
find the proper library to link to. Try (re)installing
gettext. The rest happens because rpm is missing and I
think nividia's drivers are packaged as an rpm.

I don't know why fedora-core is popping up. perhaps
you need to set LINUX_BASE=gentoo in make.conf. I
think that is the correct syntax but man make.conf
should have the right syntax. I think for whatever
reason rpm has something to do with the fedora-core
base source. I'm not positive but building it in the
past I seem to recall something going on with
fedora-core. that or i seem to recall nvidia used a
self running and extracting rpm which is linked to
fedora core because redhat obviously created the
redhat package manager.

-brian