Packages/Ports problem

[Adriaan de Groot]

Hey Jimmie,

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 21:45, Jimmie Houchin wrote:
> My problem is that in the install it fails to get the selected packages.
> It installs the base and such correctly. I am left with a bootable
> system, but no XFree86 and other stuff.

As you may have noticed, there probably aren't many (any?) amd64 packages 
available. This means you'll have to install most things from source (not a 
big deal, that's what the FreeBSD ports collection is for). In particular, if 
you've installed the ports collection, you can 

	cd /usr/ports

and see what's there. INDEX lists all ninethousand-odd ports that are 
available. You might

	cd /usr/ports/misc/instant-workstation
	make && make install && make clean

to get things started. I'd suggest

	cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3
	make && make install && make clean

as well, but that's a personal bias.

This will suck down vast quantities of source code and compile it. Probably 
successfully (although with KDE, it's problematic due to recent updates that 
are needed to build on amd64).

> pkg_add -r cvsup

This brings us to updating. Try to web search for "why is cvsup written in 
modula-3". The modula-3 compiler hasn't been ported yet, so cvsup can't be 
compiled, and it's a pretty basic part of the infrastructure. I think it was 
David who provided a link to a working cvsup package (no GUI). Check the 
archives of this list.

As an alternative, if you've got a spare i386 box sitting around, you could 
install FreeBSD on that too, and install the i386 cvsup package on it. Then 
use that cvsup to update the sources and ports trees (you can share source 
and ports trees with NFS).


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