Gnome 2.6

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 22:53, Ben Downer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've redone the install, this time logging all the output to a file. I've since grepped it all for "failed", and it seems that the docbook is the first to fail, which stops scrollkeeper from installing, causing most other things to break.
> 
> >From the output file
> 
> pkg_add: extract_plist: Bogus filename "share/doc/docbook-xsl/html/htmlhelp.hhp.windows'.html"
> pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'docbook-xsl-1.65.1' failed!
> 
> Any suggestions for a fix, I really need to get this machine in a usable state sometime soon.

You need to use the sysutils/pkg_install port to install packages on
5.2.1-RELEASE.  It's one of the known items listed at
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq26.html which I encourage you to
read.

Joe

> 
> Many thanks,
> Ben
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:45:36 -0400
> To: Ben Downer <bdown at graffiti.net>
> Subject: Re: Gnome 2.6
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 08:36, Ben Downer wrote:
> > > Hi Mezz,
> > > 
> > > Okay, I tried to install gnome 2.6 on a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.2.1.
> > > 
> > > Following what is outlined here, http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q1 , I typed pkg_add -r gnome2, but this installed gnome 2.4 files, and left my machine in a non usable state (ie, new applications requiring old libraries).
> > > 
> > > Nuked the system, a new fresh install, try a different approach.
> > > 
> > > setenv PACKAGESITE "http://www.marcuscom.com/tb/packages/5.2.1-GNOME-2.6/"
> > > 
> > > pkg_add -r gnome2-2.6.0    (didn't work at all without the version number)
> > > 
> > > libgnomecanvas is not installed, so gnome apps don't work.
> > > 
> > > Hopefully its an easy fix somewhere in dependencies, but I seem to have followed all the correct steps from everything that I've read, and have gotten no where.
> > 
> > Where is the output of the pkg_add (preferrably pkg_add -v)?  Since you
> > were using PACKAGESITE, you should have set it to:
> > 
> > http://www.marcuscom.com/tb/packages/5.2.1-GNOME-2.6/Latest/
> > 
> > Then you could have done pkg_add -r gnome2.
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thankyou,
> > > Ben
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net>
> > > Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 03:46:08 -0500
> > > To: Ben Downer <bdown at graffiti.net>
> > > Subject: Re: Gnome 2.6
> > > 
> > > > You still haven't explain how you upgrade your system. We have no idea 
> > > > what you have done.
> > > > 
> > > > BTW: Be sure to check 
> > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2004-April/006030.html
> > > > before you reply back.
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Mezz
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 15:30:27 +0800, Ben Downer <bdown at graffiti.net> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Just as an addition to my last email, this ends up totally b0rking the 
> > > > > system, as the libs are now half 2.4 and half 2.6.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ben
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.
> > -- 
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