ports installation (long)

[Nikolas Britton]

Tadimeti Keshav wrote:

>all,
>thanks for the suggestions.
>1. CVSUP: I tried CVSup = it updated my ports
>skeletons, but while compiling XMMS 1.2.10, it needed
>a newer version of libogg, which could not be
>installed because mplayer-esound and artsd were using
>an older version of libogg. (mplayer had installed by
>then).
>

>I thought of doing a portupgrade to libogg, but this
>would have broken artsd and mplayer-esound. Is this a
>bug with the latest ports tree?
>
Your on the right track here....read this:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html

>2. MAKE FETCH-RECURSIVE: Then I deleted the entire
>ports tree and installed it fresh from CD-ROM; then cd
>to /usr/ports/multimedia/xmms, then make
>fetch-recursive. This went on for an hour. It tried to
>fetch xc... and fetched libxml2. I killed this and did
>a simple make, which downloaded the correct libxml and
> 40 mins later, xmms was built.
>

>3. Mplayer: mplayer built fine (except for a glitch
>which would download all skins regardless of the
>options chosen). But when I do: gmplayer &, I get a
>black patch in the bottom right corner of the screen,
>which should be the GUI. 
>
>3 hours later, I felt I may have been better off with
>Mandrake Linux, with Xine,Mplayer,xmms and other
>goodies installed within 1 hr. For now I am sticking
>with FreeBSD, but I'll soon install dual boot Mandrake
>Linux 9.1 for a usable computer.
>
If you want to use the ports system then it is allways going to take 
longer, this is part of the reason that FreeBSD also has the package system:
Read Chapter 4 Installing Applications: Packages and Ports:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html