Subject: RE: Previously made packages won't get installed!
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: sucho2 <sucho2@vt.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/15/2002 19:43:58
Screw KDE or any other packages!

Heck I just gonna use wm that comes with X and be it forever!

One only needs:

NetBSD OS,
X,
Netscape (for email+surfing),
FORTRAN (for all my computations),
LYX (for all my writings),
gnuplot and octave (for graphiing),
xedit? for editing :( hmmmm



Sung




>===== Original Message From Sung Nae Cho <sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu> =====
>Hi,
>
>I have been using NetBSD-1.5ZA with XFree86 4.2.  I wanted to reoreganize
>my partition, therefore, reinstalled NetBSD-1.5ZA.  However, when I try to
>install KDE-2.2.2.tgz package that was made won't install!  When I do
>pkg_add kde-2.2.2.tgz, NetBSD seems to go through all the installation
>processes, showing the verbose etc.  But, when it's done, nothing got
>installed!  I have been having trouble with.  I've tried to add
>separately, kdebase, kdelibs... etc.. none of it gets installed.  What's
>odd is that NetBSD runs through the installation (unpacking) etc... but
>after couple minutes of hard work, when I see the /usr directory, hardly
>nothing is installed.  Is package system broken or what?  At the moment,
>the only option for me is to remake from pkgsrc which really "piss" me off
>after all that time I spent compiling the whole kde packages (took 15
>hours to copile).  Sorry for the foul language.  Anyone know of the quick
>remedy to this problem?  I still haven't erased the *.tgz files for kde
>yet just in case.
>
>
>Yours sincerely,
>Sung N. Cho,
>Friday, Feb. 15, 2002.