install xorg question ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 08/09/14 09:26, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 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
>


Thanks, worked like a champ !!!!!


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