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Message-ID: <33B5295F.84CAD6F7@magibox.net> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 10:10:24 -0500 From: Ken <welk@magibox.net> Reply-To: welk@mem.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Ports disillusionment for Novice X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.50.183.100 Lines: 45 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.ci.com.au!brian.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!bulb.garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!cygnus.com!news1.best.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!pull-feed.internetmci.com!chaos.magibox.net!207.50.183.100 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43852 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. The server here is FreeBSD 2.1.7. Using the ports collection, the first port attempted was wwwcount, which ended with a bad checksum error when make install was run. 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. The third port attempted was qpopper, which seemed to be going fine until this result: > ===> Installing for qpop-2.2 > > mtree: unknown group wheel > mtree: failed at line 5 of the specification > *** Error code 1 > > Stop. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop. > Now being a newbie at this, I don't necessarily blame the ports themselves--though I don't understand why the checksum error would happen repeatedly, or for that matter the wheel group problem on the last attempted port. However, following the information provided seems to ended in these failures. And that can be disappointing for a novice who reads how easy installing the ports is. Besides saying the obvious, that I appaently don't know what I'm doing, any ideas? Ken welk@mem.net