install xorg question ....

[Matthew Seaman]

On 09/08/2014 15:02, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> I am rying to install xorg-7.7 under FreeBSD 9.3 apparently needed by
> XFCE. I get the following:

> [root at kabini1, /etc, 8:56:00am] 353 % pkg install xorg-7.7
> Updating repository catalogue
> FreeBSD repository is up-to-date
> All repositories are up-to-date
> The following 131 packages will be affected (of 0 checked):
> 
> New packages to be INSTALLED:
>         xorg: 7.7
>         xorg-libraries: 7.7_1
>             .
>             .
>             .
>         xf86-input-keyboard: 1.8.0_2
> 
> The process will require 98 MB more space
> 37 MB to be downloaded
> 
> Proceed with this action [y/N]: y
> Fetching xorg-apps-7.7.txz: 100% of 2 kB
> pkg: xorg-apps-7.7 failed checksum from repository
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 8:56:19am] 354 %
> 
> 
> I had already fetched the 1st part of the list. How do I work around
> this :-/ ?

This is quite possibly a bug that occurs when upgrading from pkg-1.2.7
to pkg-1.3.5.1.  The solution is to run:

   # pkg clean -a
   # pkg update -f

That will delete everything you've got in your package cache and force
pkg to refetch all the catalogues from the repositories you're using.

Oh -- depending on your hardware, you might want to use the new-xorg
repository.  See

  https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics
  https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/WITH_NEW_XORG
  http://daemon-notes.com/articles/desktop/kde

	Cheers,

	Matthew

-- 
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

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