Newbie: offline package use / XFCE.
Peter Ulrich Kruppa
ulrich at pukruppa.net
Tue Jan 20 19:47:19 PST 2009
Thomas W. Holloway schrieb:
>
> I would like to install XFCE on a FreeBSD 7.1 box that is and will
> remain (for now) offline. No network connection at all. If I have read
> correctly, this means downloading the appropriate package(s) and using
> pkg_add. So far, so good (I haven't done it, but it seems clear enough).
The simpliest way would be to install from one of the three
Release-CD's or from the Release-DVD (via /usr/sbin/sysinstall).
But I have no idea if XFCE4 is contained in them. Perhaps someone
could look this up for you?
Greetings,
Uli.
>
> The package for XFCE4, as listed here
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/ports/xfce.html
>
> is a "meta-port" (I believe I understand the idea), which seems to have
> about one hundred (100) dependencies. Of course, some of those will have
> dependencies of their own, and so on. My question is this:
>
> In order to "download/ftp the package" for XFCE4, I would have to obtain
> all hundred (or so) of the listed files _and_ any dependencies they may
> have so as to point pkg_add at them locally. Is this correct? If not
> correct, what have I missed (a pointer to what I've missed should be
> sufficient).
>
> I've also looked at it from the XFCE side, where there is a nice,
> detailed doc by Benedikt Meurer, here
>
>
> http://www.os-works.com/documentation/xfce-installers/4.2.1/xfce-installer/
>
> This strongly implies that I can bypass the pkg_add procedure entirely.
> Might be worth trying, but I'd still like to know if I've understood
> what the package listing above is saying.
>
> Editorial comment and/or general advice on XFCE is not unwelcome. It's
> just secondary to the question.
>
> Thanks in advance, and
>
> regards,
>
> Tom Holloway.
>
> PS: I almost forgot the traditional "PLEASE HELP!!!" ;) But this is
> not for work and I am not on any deadline whatever.
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