On 5-7-2017 08:07, DTD wrote: > if you use xfce. By definition it is not a problem that: > > 1) install a new copy of FreeBSD 10.3 > 2) pkg install xorg > 3) pkg install xfce > 4) pkg install firefox > > installs a firefox package that does not run. The project seems to do > a bit > better than this on Windows, but they (I think) have to in that > environment. The > official answer to the above is: > > --- Comment #1 from Jan Beich <jbe...@freebsd.org> --- > Partial upgrades i.e., mixing dependencies from different svn > checkouts, dates > of "pkg install" or locking dependencies, are not supported. firefox will > refuse to build unless you upgrade sqlite3. Some version requirement are > specified in the port's Makefile > > $ fgrep sqlite www/firefox/Makefile > sqlite3>=3.17.0:databases/sqlite3 \ > ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}sqlite3>0:databases/py-sqlite3 \ > > "pkg upgrade" may help you resolve this. > > The only problem with this 'solution' is that upgrading sqlite requires a > cascading series of updates that breaks parts of xfce. Other than that no > problem here. So if you use twm firefox is your browser. > > The next time I build a system I will try installing firefox first. I > got here because I wanted to ungrade thunar (xfce's file manager). > That upgrade broke > the version of firefox that was running (47.somethine). Chasing and > fixing that chain eventually required a reinstall. Happily (for me) > chrome works.
Might this be 10.3-specific? I'm running Firefox 54.0.1_1,1 on xorg-server 1.18.4_3,1 and xfce 4.12_1, on 11.0-REL-p9 amd64. No problems. Built on Poudriere, but I ran the same stuff from the offical repo for a while as well.
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