PCBSD software management

[Petr Strajt]

Hi all,

I am user of Xfce. But in default installation is not
present kbd plugin. I first looked at pbicafe, but without success

I want to install this plugin using ports. Previously, I used FreeBSD,
where install programs from the packages and ports together led to
problems with dependencies. And the only solution was recompilation
entire system with ports. It is the same in pcbsd?


Second questions is These applications can be maintained through update manger? Or it should be FreeBSD style, thus portsnap fetch, portsnap update, portupgrade -a?

Thanks for replies

Petr

[kmoore134]

You can give a shot compiling the plugin from source. However the ports
tree is a moving target, so if you portsnap you'll be getting the
latest, and it may cause dependency problems. If you still have your
PC-BSD ISO, mount it and grab the ports tarball from
/extras/components/ports.tbz, since that will have the ports tree "as it
existed" when 9.0 shipped, Those versions of ports should work better
with what you have installed.

To answer your second question, you could do the portupgrade -a stuff,
but that is completely on you to do. More than one person has hosed
their system doing that

[Petr Strajt]

Thank for your reply,

at the moment i use to change keyboard layout command setxkbmap and control of it using shortcut key in Xfce Later I will try to make .pbi package wih kbd plugin.


Have a nice day

Petr