ssh -X yields "Error: Can't open display:"

[Kent Stewart]

On Wednesday 21 December 2005 11:01 am, Danny Howard wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:32:39AM -0800, Danny Howard wrote:
> > 1-10:29 djh at castor /usr/ports# pkg_add -r xorg-clients
> > Error: FTP Unable to get
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/L
> >atest/xorg-clients.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no
> > access)
> > pkg_add: unable to fetch
> > 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/
> >Latest/xorg-clients.tbz' by URL
>
> So ... the way you get around that, is, you look in
> ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/`
>uname -r`/packages/All/ for the package name, then:
>
> pkg_add -r
> ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/5
>.3-RELEASE/packages/All/xorg-clients-6.7.0_4.tbz
>
> And now I can run xfig. :)
>

That doesn't work. FreeBSD-5.3-release does not have current packages. 
They are dinosaurs the day after they unlock the port system from a 
release. You have to look for packages in 5-stable/.../Latest.

Such as
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/Latest/

The package site always lags behind the port system. If you want current 
applications, you have to cvsup and then build them on your system. You 
have choices but you have to understand the options.

Kent

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