startx is missing

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hi

I've installed x11/kde-lite/ from ports on freeBSD 8.1 Release, but cannot start using startx:
Code: 
# startx
startx: Command not found.

x11/xorg is already installed.
What's missing?
 
KDE is an X client, it only depends on the X client libraries, it doesn't depend on an X server. You still need to install the x11/xorg-server port.

This is due to the networked nature of X. You can install X apps on systems without an X server, run them, and have the output appear on remote systems that only have the X server installed, no X apps.

If you have installed the xorg-server port, then it may be simply that the shell hasn't rehashed the binaries in the $PATH. (See post above, and search the forums for csh rehash for more info.)
 
I've installed x11-servers/xorg-server from ports, but still doesn't work:
Code: 
# ls /usr/local/bin/startx
ls: /usr/local/bin/startx: No such file or directory
# rehash
# ls /usr/local/bin/startx
ls: /usr/local/bin/startx: No such file or directory
 
To run X, you need the whole xorg: /usr/ports/x11/xorg. Some window managers don't depend on xorg explicitly, possibly because they might also be used with XFree86. xfce4 is like that.

Anyway, install xorg. There's also x11/xorg-minimal, which I have not tried.
 
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