On Wednesday 24 July 2002 09:27 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hi Brain,
| Thanks for getting back to me.
No problem.
|
| I'm happy to at last find someone who is willing to at least *say* that
| he's blasted and reinstalled a higher version of XFree86-4.
|
| From what you said here, I'll probably want to go with a packages install
| as well.
|
| > I strongly recomemnd deintalling via 'pkg_delete X*' (you can use
| > pkg_info
| > first to be sure that this will deinstall what you expect) and then
| > re-installing. Actually, I'd probably install from packages rather than
| >
| > ports, it's a lot quicker. Heck, I *know* I'd do it that way because I
| > *did*
| > do it that way just four days ago. The pkg_add -r didn't work right for
| >
| > XFree86-4 because it was looking the wrong place, but if you make it
| > look for
| > "All" packages instead of "Latest" you should be golden.
|
| How exactly do you specify to pkd_add to "look for ALL" instead the latest?
| And which version would it then return?
Check the man page for pkg_add, but there's an environement variable you set
for the place to look. I forget what the default is, but just run it with
the defaults and if it works, great--somebody fixed something since Saturday.
If it fails, then set the environemnt variable to the same as the default
path only change the "/Latest" at the end to "/All", and it will install (at
least of Saturday) XFree86-4.2.0_1,1.
--
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