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I just upgraded to 10.1-RC1 and now pkg can't find any packages. What to do? Is it a release issue? I have not changed any configurations since running freebsd-update. I would like to avoid ports.

On the Linux forums, they require a special Garmin driver, if that is interesting. I think it might not be worth trying to get it working very long, but if anyone has ideas, I am interested: When I plug in, it creates /dev/da0 (mountable as an msdos filesystem) and /dev/da1 (not mountable as a...

Hi all, I would like to run gpsman to connect to my new Garmin Etrex20. Conventionally, gpsman would like to connect to /dev/cua, but modern GPS's plug via USB ports. I am not sure where to even start with this -- I have no experience working with serial ports or doing anything with USB ports...

Voila: ~/ (j=0,r=0)$ cat /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf packagesite: http://pkgbeta.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:9:x86:32/latest Tx! Thanks!

Hi all, It is probably my foolishness, but I can't install a new package with PKGNG tools.I did the bootstrap thing to shift from pkg_* to PKGNG, but then I try the following: root@mustafa:/root # pkg install tk85 Updating repository catalogue Repository catalogue is up-to-date, no need to...

I tried reinstalling the ODE package, but I don't want to reinstall octave, especially if I have to do it with every new package. Does anybody have any ideas on how to fix the problem?

I installed the ODE package for Octave (math/octave-forge-odepkg), but now I would like to run the following command: pkg load ode but it says the package is not installed. Anybody have any ideas how to make this work? I might need to set a path, but I don't see any such in the docs for...

CUPS seemed to magically work for me recently, and I have basic printing set up, but I would like to make the printer default to double sided. I can't find a button to push on the local CUPS admin webpage. Does anyone have an idea where it is, or do I need to edit a config file? Here is my...

Someone on the nethack wiki recommended "konwert", so I installed it and I run nethack thus: telnet nethack.alt.org | konwert cp437-utf8 Now I have pretty formats. Still can't get past level 7, though....

I am trying to play nethack with "IBM graphics" (the extended character set) via an xterm on the alt.org server, but when I get control characters and letters with diacritical marks when I have nethack display with this character set. However, it works fine if I telnet in via the console. I...

Is there a canonical way to develop and test a new port NOT running as root? For hopefully obvious reasons, I would like to get the port working before installing it etc as root. Thanks!

===>>> The -PP option must stand alone ===>>> Aborting update Terminated

I know this probably gets asked once a day, but I swear I googled at least three different ways to find ;).... ... Is there some way to upgrade all my installed packages, with packages only? I.e., if there is a newer packaged version of emacs, go for it, but don't build the latest emacs from...

Ok, so I will try to start a port for Julia. I read the porter's manual, but I am not quite sure on the step-by-step. Here is what I think I should do, please correct: mkdir julia-port cd julia-port copy some skeleton makefile, update it download a tarball of julia into...

I would like to build up to that, though I am sure the porters manual has great info... Any ideas in the meantime?

Hi all, I am (still) trying to build Julia, and I would like to set GCC (and gfortran and ld) to use /usr/local/* for linking and including search paths. How can I do that at the top level of the project, "outside" of updating any Makefiles, so that I can run gmake and have it apply every...

I am trying to make Julia, but it fails with: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran But I have gfortran. Consider: julia/ (j=0,r=2)$ ls /usr/local/lib/gcc46/libgfortran.* /usr/local/lib/gcc46/libgfortran.a /usr/local/lib/gcc46/libgfortran.so.3 /usr/local/lib/gcc46/libgfortran.so...

Hypothetical question. If I go through pkg_version, find which packages have a port upgrade available, do each one of those, will I then be "package free"? At that point, whenever I run portupgrade (or whichever), will I only be pulling in ports?

Warning: this post may be slightly incoherent due to my newbie-ness. What happens when you install a combination of ports and packages and then update via ports? My story: I tried to delete all non-base system ports and packages and rebuild from port alone. I had to install xorg via...

Hi all, I deleted my non-base system, thinking I would reinstall everything with less cruft and all from ports and none from packages, but Xxorg fails when trying to build the dependency of libSM. I don't have the details in front of me (different computer). I read something about libtool5...