net/tightvnc missing dependencies?

Ion-Mihai Tetcu itetcu at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 2 05:23:41 UTC 2007


On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:32:19 -0700
Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> Momchil Ivanov wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just installed net/tightvnc and when starting the vncserver
> > it complains about missing xauth:
> >
> > space at shtaiga ~$ vncserver -geometry 800x600
> > vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH.
> >
> > I`ve manually installed x11/xauth in order to get the server
> > started. Is it a missing dependency or is it supposed to be like
> > this? Should it depend on x11-fonts/xorg-fonts too (or at least one
> > of the font ports), because the server won`t start without at least
> > the "fixed" font? I`ve installed that manually too.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >   
> Try to symlink /usr/local to /usr/X11R6. I bet that's the problem.

I didn't found this problem on my 7.2 Xorg installed from scratch, but
his have been reported to me before. I'm still trying to find a machine
on which I can do a clean install and find out what it's really missing.

If the the symlink helps please let me know.


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