FreeBSD Port: www/falkon

[Rami Shibli]

Sorry Adriaan 
My bad for some reason been confused between packages and ports. It is in ports but packages. And the ports didn’t work for me. 
I will change the packages to latest. Thanks so much

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> On 1 Apr 2018, at 7:58 pm, Adriaan de Groot <adridg at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rami,
> 
>> On Saturday, March 31, 2018 11:18:52 PM EDT Rami Shibli wrote:
>> Hello there,
>> I am trying to install falkon on my 11.1 FreeBSD (details below), the port
>> version doesn't exist
> 
> Yes it does: www/falkon was added march 5th. Or do you mean that there are no 
> packages available for 11.1-RELEASE?
> 
>> and when I tried to install from the packages I had
>> lot of issues with the dependencies and the only way to get around it, was
>> to install those troubled dependencies as binary from the port system. 
> 
> I don't understand the phrase "binary from the port system". Generally you are 
> either building from ports, or installing from packages. The packages are 
> binaries, available from the official FreeBSD package site (and KDE bleeding-
> edge stuff is also available from area51).
> 
>> Yet
>> at the end it failed to build complaining as below (I have the feeling it
>> is due to the individual packages I had to install from pkg probably
>> packages don't match). But the initail attempt to make install clean failed
>> because of the various dependencies.
> 
> The problem is right there in the error message you have posted:
> 
> ===
> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:46 (find_package): Could not find a 
> configuration file for package "Qt5" that is compatible with requested version 
> "5.9.0".
> 
> The following configuration files were considered but not accepted:
> 
> /usr/local/lib/cmake/Qt5/Qt5Config.cmake, version: 5.7.1
> ===
> 
> You have Qt 5.7.1 installed, not Qt 5.9. Install Qt 5.9 first (the ports tree 
> was updated to 5.9.3 on January 6th).
> 
> I think your specific problem is that you have 11.1-R (not 11-STABLE), so you 
> are getting packages only from the quarterly branch. The KDE ports are *not* 
> MFH'ed, so you generally won't get new packages until the next quarter. The 
> next quarter *just* was branched off, so you may have more success later in 
> the week.
> 
> Or build Qt from ports, and you'll get 5.9.4.
> 
> Personally, BTW, I would recommend using qupzilla-qt5 until you hit a website 
> that doesn't work with that -- while falkon supports more stuff, it also hangs 
> an awful lot (fortunately only single tabs) and I don't find it usable right 
> now as "the main browser for doing all the stuff".
> 
> [ade]
>