On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Glen Barber <glen.j.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On 7/1/10 5:28 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Chris Stankevitz >> <chrisstankev...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2010-June/024394.html >>> >>> In the above post, a FreeBSD GNOME team member recommends "rebuilding and >>> reinstalling sysutils/polkit, sysutils/policykit, and sysutils/consolekit". >>> >>> Q: How do I "rebuild and reinstall" these applications when they were >>> installed originally via "pkg_add -r gnome2"? >>> >>> A: "pkg_add -r polkit" [fails with the message "already installed"] >> >> I have the same problem and asked a while back but got no answer. My >> Gnome is partially broken because of a stupid libpng and libjpg >> upgrade and I would like to re-install the whole thing from binary. >> > > If you are going to rebuild libpng and libjpg, you will need to rebuild all > ports that depend on those libraries, not just the gnome-specific ports. > > You might want to have a look at ports-mgmt/portmaster. Also have a look at > /usr/ports/UPDATING, entry 20100328 for libpng. >
Thanks Glen. I did that, but my Gnome was from binary and I have been unable to find the old png lib and had to forcebly softlink to the png lib, which although works good enough to start Gnome, it's kind-a unstable (icons are broken, Nautilus chokes many times trying to draw the icon files, etc. etc.). So all I want to do is re-install Gnome from binary in the hopes it will install with it, the corresponding png/jpg libs. I am also a bit scared that the binary package will overwrite my newer libs which were updated from ports, with portmaster in fact. > Regards, > > -- > Glen Barber > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"