New package with kbd plugin not worked

[Petr Strajt]

Hi,

I created a new package with kbd plugin. I installed it, but package not worked. How to determine the cause of the error? Package was build without errors. Installation package also.

Have a nice day

Petr Strajt

[Beanpole]

Well, considering that you really gave no information about what type of package you were creating (port, PBI, pkg, etc...), I am going to assume that you are creating a PBI.

Generally to determine the cause of an error, you need to run the program from the command line, as many programs have additional debugging/error information that is printed to the terminal as the program is running. In the case of a PBI, this means that you want to run the proper binary from the /usr/pbi/(pbiname-architecture)/.sbin/ folder.

[Petr Strajt]

Hi,

I did everything as you said, but the folder name sbin file contains only xfce4-kyosk-query file. Full path to pbi package is /usr/pbi/xfce4-xkb-plugin-amd64.

I tried to create the package aspell program. With this package, the folder sbin was empty.

Both packages were developed using EasyPBI.

Thanks for your patience
Petr Štrajt

[Beanpole]

Make sure that you have the dot "." before the "sbin". In your case the path to where the binaries are located will be is:
"/usr/pbi/xfce4-xkb-plugin-amd64/.sbin"

However, from looking at the port itself[1] I do not see that the deskutils/xfce4-xkb-plugin port has any actual binaries. Instead, it is designed to be added to an existing installation of XFCE4. As such, I would recommend installing this one as a port install rather than as a PBI, that way it integrates properly into your existing installation of XFCE. I have added this plugin into our XFCE-Plugins System package for PC-BSD 9.1, so it should be easier to get this functionality once the next testing release for 9.1 comes out.

As for textproc/aspell, it looks like that port does have proper binaries (bin/aspell, bin/aspell-import). So the binaries to run in the PBI should be located in "/usr/pbi/aspell-amd64/.sbin/". Do *not* confuse this with the "/usr/pbi/aspell-amd64/sbin/" directory, as that one will not have any binaries because the port does not install any there.

I hope this helps!

[1] http://www.freshports.org/deskutils/xfce4-xkb-plugin/

[Petr Strajt]

Hi

I tried use port system to build the package. I received an error message:

===> Found xfce4-panel-4.8.6, but you need to upgrade to xfce4-panel>=4.10.0.
*** Error code 1


How solve it?

I thing that correct way is using this commands

portsnap fetch
portsnap update
portupgrade -a

Next step is installation of plugin. is it OK?


Thanks you and all team members for effort spend to development of PCBSD

Petr

[Beanpole]

The way that you have mentioned will update/change the underlying XFCE installation as well (since it looks like the XFCE ports got updated since the release of PC-BSD 9.0). It should work just fine as far as I can tell (I am not very familiar with portupgrade usage however).

Just be warned that you will not want to add/remove any of your system packages through the PC-BSD System Manager after you do this, as you might lose these manual changes. This has been fixed for the PC-BSD 9.1 release (that way you can easily have a customized FreeBSD system package setup), so you will probably want to look at updating to the (soon to be released) PC-BSD 9.1-RC1 image if you plan on doing this again in the future (although this plugin will be included in the XFCE-Plugins system package for the new release as well).

Hope this helps!