missing pkg xorg-server in 10.0-RELEASE
Daniel Herring
dherring at tentpost.com
Tue Jan 21 05:22:28 UTC 2014
Hi,
Today I pulled the DVD ISO, did a fresh 64-bit install of 10.0-RELEASE,
and tried installing X11 using pkg as documented in the Handbook.
# pkg install xorg
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-install.html
No go.
After a bit of digging, I discovered that 32-bit systems do have an xorg
package, and 64-bit systems have a similar xorg-minimal package.
http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/
http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/xorg-7.7.txz
http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/latest/All/
http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/latest/All/xorg-minimal-7.5.2.txz
Extracting these tarballs shows that both packages have a dependency on
xorg-server. However, the xorg-server package is not available for either
system.
My inclination is to stick with an older OS install rather than compile
xorg-server from ports. Do you have an estimate of when the xorg-server
packages might become available? (I plan to use nvidia-driver, if that
makes a difference.)
If building from ports is required, it might we worth noting this in the
Handbook.
Thanks,
Daniel
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