problems with pkg install kde

Jamie Griffin griffin8j at gmail.com
Tue Aug 12 07:51:42 UTC 2014


On 11/08/2014 22:15, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Hasse Hansson <hasse at thorshammare.org> writes:
>
>> root at ymer:/home/hasse # pkg install kde
>> Updating repository catalogue
>> FreeBSD repository is up-to-date
>> FreeBSD_new_xorg repository is up-to-date
>> All repositories are up-to-date
>> Updating database digests format: 100%
>> Assertion failed: (var == elt->var), function pkg_solve_sat_problem, file pkg_solve.c, line 508.
>> Child process pid=1759 terminated abnormally: Abort trap
> Known bug. pkg-devel has the fix, which will come to the non-devel port
> in the upcoming release.

I actually tried pkg-devel thinking it would allow me to continue 
installing but it too had the same error. In fact I tried a number of 
pkg versions.

It's good to know it's a known issue and will be fixed, though.



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