Following IronMan Challenge posts not only for the sake of seeing What Color of Hair & Shirt ends up with Matt but the posts have been much enlightening. Recently in IronMan Challenge, there’s been much talk about one of Miyagawa’s project, App::cpanminus. Basically, cpanminus is a tool to install perl module from CPAN, without the [...]
Category Archives: FreeBSD
FreeBSD – Make ports not to include X11 or GUI related library
FreeBSD is an excellent operating system, be it on a Desktop (PC-BSD) or Server. Its stability and flexibility was never an issue, nor even software availability (21135 ports currently available to deploy).
Most of the time, ports will install the necessary dependencies to fulfill its requirement. But certain ports installs the X11 (X window system) libraries. [...]
FreeBSD – How to manage ports in FreeBSD using portmanager
There are various way of managing ports, using utilities. The usual “cd /usr/ports/<ports directory>; make; make install; make clean“, portmaster, portupgrade and others. Today, this post will brief on how to use portmanager to install, upgrade and delete ports.
Using portmanager to manage ports have a few advantage :
portmanager scans for what dependencies are needed and [...]
FreeBSD – How to setup ports using wget to download
The default download program for ports is using fetch. fetch is fine but my personal preference is wget. wget uses 1 connection to download, unlike my previous post that mentioned “Download ports simultaneously with multiple connections“.
But wget gives extra bell and whistle like date/time of the download, log to file, continue from a partially downloaded [...]
FreeBSD – Tips to prepare large ports installation
Ports gets it’s sources from internet. If the sources is big or there are multiple tens of sources, the tendency to fail in the mid of the ports installation increases.
Scenario 1:
Bumpy internet broadband internet connection, like mine, will disconnect halfway when downloading big files (> 10 MB)
Scenario 2:
Large ports that depends on tens if not [...]
FreeBSD – Ports is fetching from slow servers
Ports randomly gets it’s source server list from /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk, as defined by the port maintainer. But the top 1st choice of the list may not be the one physically near to us and thus the download speed is much desirable. Most of the time compiling ports doesn’t necessary takes a long time (like my 3 [...]
Gimp – How to convert background of logo or picture into transparency
Gimp stands for “GNU Image Manipulation Program“, which is an open source image editing problem. It’s capability often compare to professional software but fortunately, Gimp acceptance as Pro image editing software is getting better. Even so, Gimp is still popular among beginner up to hobbyist user.
Gimp’s available on multiple platform and since it is open [...]
FreeBSD – Compilation errors on port KDE4 in FreeBSD 8.0
While adding GUI Desktop environment into my development box, an error encountered when compiling KDE4, the stable and nice looking Desktop environment. Compiling KDE4 can take quite some time as it depends on few hundred other ports. Alternatively, you can install KDE4 from the packages by using the command :
pkg_add -r kde4
But installing programs using [...]
FreeBSD – How to check swap space or partition info
Use the command :
swapinfo
Specified the parameter “-h” to convert the bytes to “h”uman readable form :
swapinfo -h
Sayonara !!!
FreeBSD – ports install Exim email server with patch error
Learned another thing today. The ports tree is just a repository of available software, it can be deleted & regenerated. Why would some one wants to delete the ports tree? It needed to be delete and regenerated because some patch was downloaded incorrectly and the problem stubbornly persists.
Sample of the error :
===> Applying FreeBSD patches [...]
