linux-glib2 unavailable ?

[Eric Schuele]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 08:42:55PM +0000, Eric Schuele wrote:
> 
>>Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:23:17PM +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>A lot of linux related ports won't install on my fbsd-6.0 system due to
>>>>the following error:
>>>>
>>>>fetch:
>>>>ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/rpm/glib2-2.2.1-1.i386.rpm:
>>>>File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) => Couldn't fetch it
>>>>- please try to retrieve this => port manually
>>>>into /usr/ports/distfiles/rpm and try again. *** Error code 1
>>>>
>>>>So, I can't build acroread, realplayer, etc..
>>>>
>>>>Anybody any ideas what's going on?
>>>
>>>
>>>RESTRICTED=     "binary under GNU LGPL without accompanying source"
>>
>>Forgive me for being a bit slow this evening... I'm having the same 
>>problem.  I have tried obtaining glib2 via:
>>
>>  pkg_add -r linux-glib2
>>
>>Yet it fails as well.
> 
> 
> For the same reason.
> 
> 
>> Where/how can I get this lib?
> 
> 
> Talk to the maintainer or look around for it yourself, e.g. on google
> or an FTP search engine.

Ah.. I understand now.  I thought "binary under GNU LGPL without 
accompanying source" meant it was only available from FreeBSD.org as a 
binary.

ok. Thanks.  I'll try to dig it up.

> 
> Kris


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Regards,
Eric