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From: bkogawa@primenet.com (Bryan Ogawa)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ports disillusionment for Novice
Date: 29 Jun 1997 00:03:00 -0700
Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet
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Ken <welk@magibox.net> writes:

>I post this for whatever discussion and/or value it might have.

>From a unix and FreeBSD perspective, this is the vew of a novice.

>It is disappointing to fail to successfully install any of the 3 ports
>attempted.

>wwwcount, which ended with a bad checksum error when make install was
>run.

This usually happens when the software version has changed without the
archive's file name changing.  You can remove the checksums, which (a)
reduces security (you might be getting a trojan horse'd archive), and (b)
may not work anyway (if the changes are legitimate, the port may fail).

>The second port attempted was imap-uw, which had a number of errors
>reported during make install. This could be understood since imap-uw is
>not in the ports-2.1.7 directory and therefore may require a higher
>version of FreeBSD to install successfully.

This sounds likely.

>The third port attempted was qpopper, which seemed to be going fine
>until this result:

>> ===>  Installing for qpop-2.2
>>
>> mtree: unknown group wheel

This sounds like you do not have a wheel group.  This is odd:  what does
your /etc/group file look like?  (wheel should appear first in your group
list, something like this:

wheel:*:0:root
)

hope that helps.
--
bryan k. ogawa  <bkogawa@primenet.com>  <bkogawa@netvoyage.net>