Have been playing around with local::lib and bootstrap a few directories. After switching a few local::lib directories, I tend to forget which cpan module is installed in which local::lib directory and this make perl don’t know where to find the cpan module. This is how to set the environment variable @INC so that perl can ...

By default, perl modules installed through cpanX (cpanm, cpanp & cpan) utilities are install into system wide perl directory. Although this will make the module available through out all users on this box, it also means if there’s a problem with particular module, it affects all users. Some other problem hit me as well :Problem ...

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) ...

There are various way of managing ports, using utilities. The usual “cd /usr/ports/<port s 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 …

When too many icon clogging on the Menu Bar, re-arrange them might look better. The shortcut key to arrange the icons is :Cmd + mouse left clickon an icon then start arranging them. Adios !!!

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 ...

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 ...

Ports randomly gets it’s source server list from /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.si tes.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 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 …

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 kde4But installing programs using ...