On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:37:10PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: > I think I have made a horrendeous mess of my workstation. I have been > running 5.3 with no problem, and then I tried to csvup the ports files, > using the following section in ports-supfile. Note I didn't change the > release tag! I updated a few of the ports, including Evolution and > Firefox, and had trouble with missing libraries, such as libgthread .. > 400 having been rename to ..600.. > > The machine now feels less stable than an old version of Windows. > Things like Tk.pm and other Perl modules no longer work, and won't > reinstall. I had to copy over the missing libraries for Evolution and > Firefox from another machine. > > Any advice for recovery, other than a re-installation and fresh start? > What should I do next time?
Use portupgrade to update your ports. What you did wrong was updated a port that provides a library without updating the ports that depend on that library. Kris
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