Re: Installing GNOME
Hi. I just tried the latest installation CD of GNU/kFreeBSD today. It seems to work fine, except several things. The first one is that I cannot get to install GNOME. Several unsolvable dependencies are making it impossible, while it works in GNU/Linux Sid. How should I report this, and how could I help solving it? I'm already confident with packaging for Debian GNU/Linux, but I'm not a DD, though I would love to become one someday. This is a known problem. The main server of GNU/kFreeBSD has experienced a downtime, which prevents packages from being built for two weeks. We are now trying to build the missing packages, but it has to be done in the correct order, so there is a lot of work. KDE suffer from the same problem. You can also put into /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.gnuab.org/debian-snapshot/2007-04-05 unstable main deb http://ftp.gnuab.org/debian-snapshot/2007-04-05 unreleased main deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian dists/etch/main/binary-i386/ and comment-out all other lines (and refresh Packages by apt-get update). This way, you will get etch based snapshot, which does not contain many unsolvable dependencies. This should be sufficient for installing GNOME. Petr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing GNOME
Le lundi 14 mai 2007 à 08:32 +0200, Petr Salinger a écrit : Hi. I just tried the latest installation CD of GNU/kFreeBSD today. It seems to work fine, except several things. The first one is that I cannot get to install GNOME. Several unsolvable dependencies are making it impossible, while it works in GNU/Linux Sid. How should I report this, and how could I help solving it? I'm already confident with packaging for Debian GNU/Linux, but I'm not a DD, though I would love to become one someday. This is a known problem. The main server of GNU/kFreeBSD has experienced a downtime, which prevents packages from being built for two weeks. We are now trying to build the missing packages, but it has to be done in the correct order, so there is a lot of work. KDE suffer from the same problem. You can also put into /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.gnuab.org/debian-snapshot/2007-04-05 unstable main deb http://ftp.gnuab.org/debian-snapshot/2007-04-05 unreleased main deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian dists/etch/main/binary-i386/ and comment-out all other lines (and refresh Packages by apt-get update). This way, you will get etch based snapshot, which does not contain many unsolvable dependencies. This should be sufficient for installing GNOME. Thanks for the info. A little late, though, as I don't feel like reinstalling now downgrading now. However, this machine is not critical to me, I just installed it to see how faster Debian GNU/kFreeBSD can be compared to GNU/Linux on aging machines (early PII/III-class, of which I maintain a lot). I'm willing to help fix the problems though. So I first try to notice, then report, then try to provide a fix. Petr -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
Re: Installing GNOME
Le lundi 14 mai 2007 à 09:43 +0200, Jerome Warnier a écrit : Le lundi 14 mai 2007 à 07:27 +0200, Aurelien Jarno a écrit : Jerome Warnier a écrit : Hi, I just tried the latest installation CD of GNU/kFreeBSD today. It seems to work fine, except several things. The first one is that I cannot get to install GNOME. Several unsolvable dependencies are making it impossible, while it works in GNU/Linux Sid. How should I report this, and how could I help solving it? I'm already confident with packaging for Debian GNU/Linux, but I'm not a DD, though I would love to become one someday. This is a known problem. The main server of GNU/kFreeBSD has experienced a downtime, which prevents packages from being built for two weeks. We are now trying to build the missing packages, but it has to be done in the correct order, so there is a lot of work. KDE suffer from the same problem. First problem I see is with latest libhal-dev not available (FTBFS). I reported it as https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10940 I will also take a look at building OOo, as the machine (and possibly others) will eventually be used as an office workstation. Bye, Aurelien -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
Installing GNOME
Hi, I just tried the latest installation CD of GNU/kFreeBSD today. It seems to work fine, except several things. The first one is that I cannot get to install GNOME. Several unsolvable dependencies are making it impossible, while it works in GNU/Linux Sid. How should I report this, and how could I help solving it? I'm already confident with packaging for Debian GNU/Linux, but I'm not a DD, though I would love to become one someday. Regards -- Jérôme Warnier FLOSS Consultant http://beeznest.net
Re: Installing GNOME
Jerome Warnier a écrit : Hi, I just tried the latest installation CD of GNU/kFreeBSD today. It seems to work fine, except several things. The first one is that I cannot get to install GNOME. Several unsolvable dependencies are making it impossible, while it works in GNU/Linux Sid. How should I report this, and how could I help solving it? I'm already confident with packaging for Debian GNU/Linux, but I'm not a DD, though I would love to become one someday. This is a known problem. The main server of GNU/kFreeBSD has experienced a downtime, which prevents packages from being built for two weeks. We are now trying to build the missing packages, but it has to be done in the correct order, so there is a lot of work. KDE suffer from the same problem. Bye, Aurelien -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `-people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing gnome [FIXED]
Yes, currently this tool is lacking in freebsd-utils or freebsd-hackedutils. It has to be packaged. This should be in the same place as on a plain FreeBSD system, but I don't know the exact location. At the end we will probably move that to /lib/firmware, but there is plenty things to do on GNU/kFreeBSD, so this may not change very soon. actually I have figured it out. I just need iwicontrol; from there I can tell it where to look for the firmware bss file Do you have some more information? For example which version? Works well with version 2.14.0.dfsg-4 here. I also was running a 2.14 (btw I thought gnome was 2.16 in the repository, but never mind); as for dfsg no idea, sorry... now the installation is deleted and iceweasel (nice to have that one in the repository!) is behaving a bit odd... What is the exact problem with iceweasel? for instance (there were other things but I don't remember exactly what, sorry!) the tabs were blocked and I had to manually change from tab to tab with control + pag up/ pag down It's not too serious but newcomers would be scared away because of such a thing, I guess Cheers, Aurelien Merci pour tout et l'attention... C'est une chose magnifique, votre projet!! Pau Amaro Seoane -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `-people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing gnome [FIXED]
Yes, currently this tool is lacking in freebsd-utils or freebsd-hackedutils. It has to be packaged. This should be in the same place as on a plain FreeBSD system, but I don't know the exact location. At the end we will probably move that to /lib/firmware, but there is plenty things to do on GNU/kFreeBSD, so this may not change very soon. actually I have figured it out. I just need iwicontrol; from there I can tell it where to look for the firmware bss file Do you have some more information? For example which version? Works well with version 2.14.0.dfsg-4 here. I also was running a 2.14 (btw I thought gnome was 2.16 in the repository, but never mind); as for dfsg no idea, sorry... now the installation is deleted and iceweasel (nice to have that one in the repository!) is behaving a bit odd... What is the exact problem with iceweasel? for instance (there were other things but I don't remember exactly what, sorry!) the tabs were blocked and I had to manually change from tab to tab with control + pag up/ pag down It's not too serious but newcomers would be scared away because of such a thing, I guess Cheers, Aurelien Merci pour tout et l'attention... C'est une chose magnifique, votre projet!! Pau Amaro Seoane -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `-people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing gnome [FIXED]
Vim Visual a écrit : Hi, Yes, fortunately I have some experience with FreeBSD and I had already selected the iwi module when installing... but I am missing some tools, like iwicontrol Yes, currently this tool is lacking in freebsd-utils or freebsd-hackedutils. It has to be packaged. Also, I don't have any idea where to copy the firmware, so that iwi finds it iwi0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::216:6fff:fea4:62d7%iwi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7 inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255 ether 0:16:6f:a4:62:d7 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: no carrier ssid channel 1 authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100 protmode CTS The radio transitter is on # sysctl dev.iwi.0.radio dev.iwi.0.radio: 1 I have put the firmware in /lib/firmware, because this is the way I'd do it with debian (linux) This should be in the same place as on a plain FreeBSD system, but I don't know the exact location. At the end we will probably move that to /lib/firmware, but there is plenty things to do on GNU/kFreeBSD, so this may not change very soon. I have also noticed that installing gnome-utils yields a problem E: gnome-utils: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Do you have some more information? For example which version? Works well with version 2.14.0.dfsg-4 here. and iceweasel (nice to have that one in the repository!) is behaving a bit odd... What is the exact problem with iceweasel? Cheers, Aurelien -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `-people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
installing gnome
Hi, after my successful startx the first thing I tried to do was apt-get install gnome-session. This downloaded a bunch of files but in the end I got some files are missing. I guess this is because maybe the whole dependencies have not been yet totally exported to debian-bsd... after that I install gdm and I am able to login after having created a user but the splash screen freezes and that's it. Is it due to some packages missing? If you, is there a fully functional wm in debian-bsd? I am itching to use it! thanks for the good work! Pau Amaro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing gnome [FIXED]
ahem, sorry about that... I am just a bit too excited! I just installed fluxbox and from there installed synaptic and chose the missing packages... of course, this could have been done perfectly from the command line... I LOVE debian-bsd! Please keep it free and with no blobs in the future! We need distros (I mean OS, sorry :) ) like this one Now I wonder how to configure my wlan... in linux I would install ipw2200 and download the intel firmare (it's a centrino) per hand... Or should I go the freeBSD way? I mean iwi? Another important point... how to figure out which modules can I need? And for the ethernet card I just chose _all_ to be sure I have connection... but I guess this is not the elegant way... Is ACPI supported? ok, too many questions... I'm just happy about my Christmas present :) thanks! Pau Amaro 2006/12/30, Vim Visual [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, after my successful startx the first thing I tried to do was apt-get install gnome-session. This downloaded a bunch of files but in the end I got some files are missing. I guess this is because maybe the whole dependencies have not been yet totally exported to debian-bsd... after that I install gdm and I am able to login after having created a user but the splash screen freezes and that's it. Is it due to some packages missing? If you, is there a fully functional wm in debian-bsd? I am itching to use it! thanks for the good work! Pau Amaro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: installing gnome [FIXED]
Hi. Now I wonder how to configure my wlan... in linux I would install ipw2200 and download the intel firmare (it's a centrino) per hand... Or should I go the freeBSD way? I mean iwi? You can try insmod if_iwi, as there is /lib/modules/6.1-1-686/if_iwi.ko Another important point... how to figure out which modules can I need? And for the ethernet card I just chose _all_ to be sure I have connection... but I guess this is not the elegant way... For ethernet card you can try to deselect all as many ethernet cards are builtin. Or check name(s) of current interface(s) by ifconfig -a and leave only appropriate if_xxx. Is ACPI supported? ls -l /lib/modules/6.1-1-686/*acpi* Happy New Year to all. Petr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
