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  From: James Leone <jleone@pacbell.net>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 20:07:19 -0700

[OT] FreeBSD Newb-blog Part II

Mutt

Although I was able to get Mutt to work I just have to figure out how to get 
emacs to wrap at 75 characters. In the meantime, I am using Kmail.

Upgrade to KDE.

I am not surprised this didn't work, SuSE was chucking wobblies with QT as 
well.

Basically I ran this command and received this output:

>FreeBSD# cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3/
>FreeBSD# make install clean
>===>  Configuring for kdepim-3.1.2
>checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.1.0) (library qt-mt) not 
>found. Please check your installation!
>For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.
>Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support!
>===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
>      Please report the problem to kde@FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach
>      the "/usr/ports/deskutils/kdepim3/work/kdepim-3.1.2/config.log" 
>including
>      the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a
>      good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your
>      system (e.g. an `ls /var/db/pkg`).
>*** Error code 1
>
>Stop in /usr/ports/deskutils/kdepim3.
>*** Error code 1
>Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kde3.

I wrote the maintainer kde@FreeBSD and he told me to run:"pkg_info | grep -i 
qt" to find out what version of QT I had. He also said that I may have to add 
packages manually. When I ran the command I got back: qt-3.0.5_5, so I tried 
to do what I did with SuSE, remove the package. I looked in Grog's book and I 
found package_delete, so I tried to remove it and I got this:

>FreeBSD# pkg_delete qt-3.0.5_5
>pkg_delete: package 'qt-3.0.5_5' is required by these other packages
>and may not be deinstalled:
>KSubeditor-0.13.r1
>arts-1.0.4,1
>es-kde-i18n-3.0.4
>kde-3.0.5
>kdebase-3.0.5
>kdegames-3.0.4
>kdegraphics-3.0.4
>kdelibs-3.0.5_1
>kdemultimedia-3.0.4
>kdenetwork-3.0.5
>kdeutils-3.0.4_1
>koffice-1.2,1
>kwatch-2.3.0_1
>mkultra-0.2.1
>qinx-0.4
>qt-bluecurve-theme-0.47

Then I looked up information on forcing the removal of the packages:

FreeBSD# man pkg_delete

     -f      Force removal of the package, even if a dependency is recorded or
             the deinstall or require script fails.

Ok, time to force:

>FreeBSD# pkg_delete -f qt-3.0.5_5
>pkg_delete: package 'qt-3.0.5_5' is required by these other packages
>and may not be deinstalled (but I'll delete it anyway):
>KSubeditor-0.13.r1
>arts-1.0.4,1
>es-kde-i18n-3.0.4
>kde-3.0.5
>kdebase-3.0.5
>kdegames-3.0.4
>kdegraphics-3.0.4
>kdelibs-3.0.5_1
>kdemultimedia-3.0.4
>kdenetwork-3.0.5
>kdeutils-3.0.4_1
>koffice-1.2,1
>kwatch-2.3.0_1
>mkultra-0.2.1
>qinx-0.4
>qt-bluecurve-theme-0.47
>pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/X11R6/plugins'
>pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the packing list is
>incorrectly specified?)

There was an error, but I have seen errors like this before and its usually 
not a problem in Linux, so I went back to trying the upgrade:

>FreeBSD# cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3/
>FreeBSD# make install clean
>===>  Installing for kde-3.1.2_1
>qt-x11-free-3.1.2.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/KDE.
> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/.
>Receiving qt-x11-free-3.1.2.tar.bz2 (13358932 bytes): 100% (ETA 00:00)
>13358932 bytes transferred in 93.8 seconds (139.14 kBps)
>===>  Extracting for qt-3.1.2_1
> Checksum OK for KDE/qt-x11-free-3.1.2.tar.bz2.
>===>  Patching for qt-3.1.2_1
>===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for qt-3.1.2_1
>===>   qt-3.1.2_1 depends on shared library: Xft.2 - not found
>===>    Verifying install for Xft.2 in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/Xft
> xft-2.1.2.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> Attempting to fetch from http://fontconfig.org/fontconfig/release/.
>Receiving xft-2.1.2.tar.gz (243680 bytes): 100%
>243680 bytes transferred in 1.9 seconds (126.74 kBps)
>===>  Extracting for Xft-2.1.2
>Checksum OK for xft-2.1.2.tar.gz.
>===>  Patching for Xft-2.1.2
>===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for Xft-2.1.2
>===>  Building for Xft-2.1.2
>gmake  all-am
>cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include 
>-I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -O 
>-pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -MT xftdpy.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/xftdpy.Tpo -c 
>xftdpy.c  -fPIC -o .libs/xftdpy.o
>xftdpy.c: In function `XftDefaultSubstitute':
>xftdpy.c:484: `FC_RGBA_UNKNOWN' undeclared (first use in this function)
>xftdpy.c:484: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>xftdpy.c:484: for each function it appears in.)
>gmake[1]: *** [xftdpy.lo] Error 1
>gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11-fonts/Xft/work/xft-2.1.2'
>gmake: *** [all] Error 2
>*** Error code 2
>
>Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/Xft.
>*** Error code 1
>
>Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt31.
>*** Error code 1
>
>Stop in /usr/ports/deskutils/kdepim3.
>*** Error code 1
>
>Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kde3.
>FreeBSD#

Hmmmm. Looks like that isn't going to work. I don't know much about compilers. 
I decideed to reinstall QT3.0.5 from the FTP site, and it went smoothly. I 
retried the upgrade same error.

So far, here is what happened:

1. The set up program on the cd showed a message indicating that the 
Xconfiguration failed in the setup screen. I picked the most conservative 
settings, rebooted my machine and copied over my Linux Xf86config file, and 
went with the syntax that looked native to FreeBSD if there was a difference. 
Although I am happy with the resolution, the color is definitely off and the 
graphics are fuzzy.

2. I didn't have an option during setup to choose KDE and its window manager, 
as my default login environment. As a result, I had to go into Linux to use 
my web browser to research and set up KDE as my window manager.

3. Sendmail had a strange sleeping error that has gone away but I don't know 
how

4. After changing my settings to use KDM to log in with, I could not log in at 
all, and was forced to simply shut the machine off. I went back into Linux 
and found a command to let me back in, and then I had to run fsck. After 
that, my printer settings had gone vanilla and I no longer was required to 
supply a root password. (Security Anyone?)

5. I don't know how to add Reiser file sysyem support

6. I can't set up the cups printers because I am not authorized even though I 
am logged into the web page as root. In Netscape it just does a Netscape 7 
search when I press on anything and I get 997000 search results.

7. I am hopeful about the Netware Client but I haven't tried that yet.

8. Samba Client, I have to look up syntax of /etc/fstab entries

9. I have not tried a WineX or cross over office installations.

10. The command I run in Linux to mount the FreeBSD partition does not work. 
My source is Red Hat verified by the LDP:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/2003-June/msg01624.html
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+FreeBSD-5.html#ss5.1

11. Mutt's word wrap is not behaving
12. I have no sound, nothing in the book about it, so I will search the web.

James Leone









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