X11 / XFree86 Installation

[Dejan Lesjak]

On Monday 08 of August 2005 03:49, Teo De Las Heras wrote:
> O.K. I'm now in the process of installing Xorg from the ports that are
> included in FreeBSD 5.3.  About half way through I am getting a
> message that libXft-2.1.6.tar.gz is not available.  I have tried to
> download it to the distfiles directory from various FTP site the when
> I run make I get checksum errors.

Either update your ports tree (see Handbook 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
ports chapter), or replace MASTER_SITES line in x11-fonts/libXft/Makefile with

MASTER_SITES=   http://xlibs.freedesktop.org/release/

or fetch the file from above URL.


Dejan