Error installing fluxbox thru pkgsrc

OBcecado · 03-19-2006, 03:14 PM

Hi.
I'm having problems when installing fluxbox.
It needs a dependency x11-links-0.28 and i'm unable to install it because

Code:

===> x11-links-0.28 requires X headers to be installed
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/x11-links

What are X headers ?
I performed a search but was unable to find anything related to this.

Thanks in advance.

cnjohnson · 03-19-2006, 04:28 PM

How did you install X? If from something like the CD/sysinstall did you specify all sources and headers should be loaded on the system? Did you install X by using a pkg_add without getting the sources and headers? Did you install X in a location different from /usr/X11R6 ?

Cheers--
Charles

OBcecado · 03-20-2006, 09:43 AM

Hi.
I installed X from pkgsrc.
it's at /usr/pkg/X11R6 should i move it to /usr or can i set the path elsewhere ?

Greetz.

frob23 · 03-20-2006, 03:39 PM

Code:

mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X.old
ln -s /usr/pkg/X11R6 /usr/X11R6

OBcecado · 03-20-2006, 05:02 PM

Hi again.

Code:

bash-2.05b# ls
X.old   bin     include libdata lkm     pkg     sbin
X11R6.3 games   lib     libexec mdec    pkgsrc  share
bash-2.05b# ls /usr
X.old   bin     include libdata lkm     pkg     sbin
X11R6.3 games   lib     libexec mdec    pkgsrc  share
bash-2.05b# cd pkgsrc/pkgsrc/wm/fluxbox/
bash-2.05b# make install
===> fluxbox-0.9.14nb4 uses X11, but /usr/X11R6 not found
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/pkgsrc/wm/fluxbox
bash-2.05b#

I don't understand what the error is referring to...
Thanks for your help.

Greetz.

frob23 · 03-20-2006, 05:15 PM

What's the link pointing at?

What's "ls -l /usr/X11R6/" do?

cnjohnson · 03-20-2006, 07:12 PM

May I ask why you are going to the trouble of building by hand what ports does for you automagically? Why not go to /usr/ports/x11/xorg and do

Quote:

make all && make install && make clean

and then go to the fluxbox port and do the same thing?

Cheers--
Charles

frob23 · 03-20-2006, 07:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cnjohnson

May I ask why you are going to the trouble of building by hand what ports does for you automagically? Why not go to /usr/ports/x11/xorg and do and then go to the fluxbox port and do the same thing?

Cheers--
Charles

Maybe because he's using NetBSD and pkgsrc not FreeBSD and ports.

NetBSD installs ALL third party programs under /usr/pkg (or another chosen directory) and does not mix them locally. So you need to point /usr/X11R6 to the directory where pkgsrc's X was installed.

cnjohnson · 03-21-2006, 09:42 AM

Well, if any one wants to slap me silly with the big clue stick, please, Do! I deserve it for not reading carefully enough. People may safely ignore what *I* have to say; at the moment it is all noise and no signal. Sorry 'bout that.

Cheers--
Charles
(who suffers from foot-in-mouth disease.)

OBcecado · 03-21-2006, 10:30 AM

Hi.

Code:

-bash-2.05b$ ls -l /usr/X11R6.3/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  1024 Mar 20 21:47 bin
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel   512 Mar 20 21:46 include
drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel   512 Mar 20 21:47 lib

Quote:

Originally Posted by frob23

So you need to point /usr/X11R6 to the directory where pkgsrc's X was installed.

Can you please tell me how to do that ?

Thanks for your replies.

frob23 · 03-21-2006, 06:41 PM

If the directory in /usr/pkg is X11R6.3 you still need to have it just called X11R6 in /usr.

Assuming you followed my advice above (for a symbolic link) just rename the link like so...

Code:

mv /usr/X11R6.3 /usr/X11R6

And everything should be fine.

frob23 · 03-21-2006, 06:43 PM

I'm sorry I can't be "more" specific. I use xorg myself, which is why I know what the problem is and how to fix it... but I'm not aware of how the X11R6 directory was named in /usr/pkg -- which apparently named it X11R6.3

frob23 · 03-21-2006, 06:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cnjohnson

Well, if any one wants to slap me silly with the big clue stick, please, Do! I deserve it for not reading carefully enough. People may safely ignore what *I* have to say; at the moment it is all noise and no signal. Sorry 'bout that.

Cheers--
Charles
(who suffers from foot-in-mouth disease.)

lol, I can't whack you with the clue-by-four. I'm embarrassed to say it's happened to me more often than I care to admit.

No one's perfect.

OBcecado · 03-22-2006, 03:33 AM

Hi.
Thanks for your replies, i'll try to do that and post here to report what happened

Thanks for your time helping tha n00b

Greetings.

OBcecado · 03-22-2006, 12:26 PM

Hi again.
Everything seems to be running nicely

Thanks everyone for your replies.

Greetings.