<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Please be sure to copy the macports-users mailing list with your replies.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m not familiar with any of the desktop environments that you’ve listed. I do note that we have around 300 entries each in the Gnome and KDE sections of our repository:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://ports.macports.org/ports/category/kde/" class="">https://ports.macports.org/ports/category/kde/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://ports.macports.org/ports/category/gnome/" class="">https://ports.macports.org/ports/category/gnome/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have many fewer entries for GNUStep and Xfce. I would try picking one app in one of the categories and try to install it. If you continue to have problems, post the details or file a support ticket (and attach the main.log). Someone can likely help if you give details on a specific problem. Without those details, all we can do is guess.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Craig</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 26, 2021, at 7:57 PM, Tom <<a href="mailto:thomas.bodlien@web.de" class="">thomas.bodlien@web.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have Xcode 12.3 installed. I am using it.</div><div class="">FreeCAD is not so important.</div><div class="">Important would be Gnome, KDE, Xfce, GNUStep. How can I build and start them?</div><div class="">Xfce builds and starts, but does not seem to work correctly.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 26. Jan 2021, at 19:32, Craig Treleaven <<a href="mailto:ctreleaven@cogeco.ca" class="">ctreleaven@cogeco.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 26, 2021, at 12:02 PM, Tom <<a href="mailto:thomas.bodlien@web.de" class="">thomas.bodlien@web.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space;">I am using Big Sur 11.1</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space;">Which macOS are you using?<br class=""><div class="">I am installing new ports.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.85098);"><span class="">tom@Toms-Mac-Pro ~ % port diagnose</span></div><div class="" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.85098);"><span class="">Warning: No Xcode version info was found for your OS version.</span></div><div class="" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.85098);"><span class="">Warning: found dylibs in your /usr/local/lib directory. These are known to cause problems. We'd recommend you remove them.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.85098);"><span class="">tom@Toms-Mac-Pro ~ % ls -l /usr/local/lib </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.85098);"><span class="">total 2088</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.85098);"><span class="">drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 Nov 20 22:29 docker</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.85098);"><span class="">drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 Apr 28 2020 dtrace</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.85098);"><span class="">-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 1064880 Oct 16 2015 libgmp.a</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.85098);"><span class="">-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 864 Oct 16 2015<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://libgmp.la/" class="">libgmp.la</a></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.85098);"><span class="">drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96 Apr 29 2020 node_modules</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.85098);"><span class="">drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 64 Dec 2 21:42 pkgconfig</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">I tried to build for example: </span><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px;">FreeCAD,</span><span class="" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px;"> Wine-Crossover, virt-manager, Kopete, qt4-mac, Gnome, KDE, GNUStep</span></div></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">The first issue is Xcode; it must be installed. You must also agree to the Xcode license. See:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.macports.org/install.php" class="">https://www.macports.org/install.php</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Next, it is impossible to predict if the things you have installed in /usr/local/lib will conflict or not. But if you have an install failure, if can waste a lot of time if that turns out to be the problem. I suggest (strongly) that you at least temporarily rename that directory while installing with MacPorts.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Big Sur may be another issue. It is still quite new and changed enough things that it caused some of our ports to break. Do you have an Intel or ARM Mac? More details of Big Sur issues at:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/BigSurProblems" class="">https://trac.macports.org/wiki/BigSurProblems</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Finally, it appears that some o the ports you are trying to install may be broken at present. Taking the first one you listed, FreeCAD, there is an open support ticket that might be the problem you are experiencing:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://trac.macports.org/ticket/60039" class="">https://trac.macports.org/ticket/60039</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Basically, FreeCAD depends on boost. Boost was changed last year to default to a Python version that is incompatible with with FreeCAD. However boost can be installed with an appropriate version. Try:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">sudo port clean freecad</div><div class="">sudo port install boost +python27</div><div class="">sudo port install freecad</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If that still fails, the error messages will tell you where to find “main.log” which should identify the actual issue.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">HTH,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Craig</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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