Using Ports From the Port Tree Taking Forever - PC-BSD Forums

epsilon>0 · #1 09-10-2005, 08:20 AM

So I updated my ports and have had issues with three installs.
Kaffeine, Wine, and Gnome.
They take forever to install.
In the folder I used:
make install clean
Gnome has taken 4 hrs and still hasn't finished.
Am I doing something wrong?
I could have installed and configured a couple operating systems in this amount of time. :roll:

Solarin · #2 09-10-2005, 09:51 AM

This is perfectly normal with the ports system, ports doesn't just install a program, it downloads the source code and compiles it. How long this will take depends on how large the program is, and how fast your machine is. Gnome is of course 'very big', the best way to install such programs is via a binary package or a PBI, although in this case a PBI does not exist.

If you look at the 'gnome' section of the FreeBSD port list (http://www.freebsd.org/ports/gnome.html) you'll see a number of ports. Most of them have 'package' links which allow you to download and install the binary (meaning you avoid compilation). It'd take you a while this way though because of the large number of dependencies, the best way is to use the 'remote fetch' option of pkg_add (-r) like this (as root):

Code:

pkg_add -r gnome2-2.10.2

Hope that helps

DrJ · #3 09-10-2005, 02:28 PM

I'll agree with Solarin here. I install everything from source EXCEPT Gnome and OpenOffice.org. For those monsters I install the binaries. It takes a long time to compile them, and it does get a bit frustrating to have it find an error eight hours into the process.

Four hours to compile Gnome is not that long.

DrJ

epsilon>0 · #4 09-10-2005, 06:28 PM

That didn't work:
PCBSD# pkg_add -r gnome2-2.10.2
Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports ... 2.10.2.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/Latest/gnome2-2.10.2.tbz' by URL

any tips?

Charles · #5 09-10-2005, 06:58 PM

Jeez... If you knew how long it took to compile KDE on my old laptop when I first discovered FreeBSD several years ago, you would jump to the ceiling :lol: