Re: dependency problem installing packages

ok thank you


On 10/18/18 1:53 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2018/10/18 12:59, Veraldi Riccardo wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I installed OpenBSD 6.3 on my Ultra 45.
>>
>> Everything works fune but when I go to install a desktop environment like
>> gnome or mate the pkg installation fails because many dependencies are
>> missing.
> Unfortunately the reality of much "portable" software today is that
> relatively little caters for much outside Linux amd64 and the further
> you get from that the harder it is to make it work.
>
> The GNOME port maintainers do a great job getting it to work as
> well as it does on OpenBSD at all but this is already a huge amount
> of work already, porting to a less common and harder-to-support
> architecture would just be an impossible amount of extra work for them
> and realistically never going to be useful enough to enough people to be
> worthwhile.
>
> On 6.3 you might try xfce (the packages are there, but I couldn't say
> if it's likely to actually work).
>
> 6.4 packages for sparc64 haven't finished building yet but looking
> at the previous snapshot there are likely to be on the order of 1000
> fewer than in 6.3, it's unlikely that xfce will be built there.
>