On 2/6/07, Thomas Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am new to FreeBSD and GNUstep so I am a little confused as to how to install GWorkspace. GWorkspace and SystemPreferences are in my ports collection, but I was not able to find the PDFKit framework. Is it in the ports collection under a different name or do I need to pkg_add it?
As far as I remember, you do not *need* the PDFKit for GWorkspace to run properly.
Can I use the ports collection to install GWorkspace and SystemPreferences or should I download the sources and compile them?
That's for you to decide. You can use the ports, if you want. The advantage would be that you do not have to worry (much) about missing dependencies, as the ports system will sort these out for you. The disadvantage would be that you will get only official releases, which obviously will lack the up-to-date features. Then again, releases usually are stable.... Another disadvantage I noticed is that the GNUstep ports do not always register dependencies properly. If you use portupgrade(1) and try to update x11/gnustep-apps/ or x11/etoile/ it occasionally will fail. Last, if you update one of the GNUstep core ports (make, base, gui, backend) you need to re-install applications by hand. portupgrade(1) will not do it for you. This could be remedied by bumping up the versions of all GNUstep related ports, though.
What directory do I download them to if I can't use the ports collection?
Doesn't matter as long as there is enough disk space left. Though I'm running FreeBSD on several machines, I only use GNUstep from ports on one of them. On all others, I use GNUstep from SVN and store the sources in my user's home.
I am using portmanager to install packages, if that makes a difference. The documentation says beefore I compile GWorkspace I need PDFKit and SystemPreferences but it doesn't say if they need to be installed in a particular order.
If you go and install the GWorkspace port, it should install dependencies beforehand, so you do not have to worry about that too much. -- Chris _______________________________________________ Apps-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/apps-gnustep
