Broken kde3 from ports, not downloading what it's supposed to. Will not compile; need advice please.

[Vladimir Botka]

There are no kde-3.5.1 packages available. AFAIK.
Maybe on the 6.1-BETA1-i386-disc2.iso ?

Cheers,

 	-vlado

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On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Greg Barniskis wrote:

> Ryan R wrote:
>> Hi there everybody
>> 
>> I am a novice user, and I just did a FreeBSD-6.0 MINIMAL install
>> 
>> I did all the basic stuff, like cvsup'ed my ports and
>> standard-supfile, so I'm synced to 6.1-PRERELEASE, and I applied my
>> kernel patches, rebuilt world, and even compiled Xorg from scratch
>> along with some basic window managers until kde3 was going to be
>> ready..  But I've encountered a problem :(
>
> Well, not bad for a novice!
>
> You've gotten good advice from others on this particular issue but I feel 
> compelled to add two cents. As a novice, you might certainly find it less 
> troublesome/exasperating to track a less volatile security release branch 
> (e.g. RELENG_6_0) instead of -STABLE (RELENG_6), and to install your ports 
> applications from packages rather than compiling these yourself from source. 
> The differences in these approaches to system and ports management are pretty 
> well described in the Handbook as well as the archives of this list.
>
> However, if you're trying to be on the bleeding edge on purpose because you 
> want the experience (including the occasional headaches) gained from 
> compiling things from scratch, then more power to you, of course. For most 
> purposes though, installing ports from packages is just fine.
>
>
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