On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 08:15 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 21:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:36 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
what about the dependency then? Ignore it? What if there
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 21:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:36 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
what about the dependency then? Ignore it? What if there are
files needed by xorg-clients? eg: libXX.so.Y and which
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:58, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
Hi,
I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read Absolute BSD and
still I can't understand FreeBSD Ports/Packages esp when it comes to
upgrading via packages. I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so
I'm not a rough diamond.
do pkg_info
look in the output for xterm. it will contain its complete name
if its name in the list output is xterm-203 then
pkg_delete xterm-203 this will remove it
then pkg_add -rv xterm should fetch the package from the ports
collection and install it.
There is a better explanation of the
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 20:32 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:58, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
Hi,
I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read Absolute BSD and
still
$pkg_add -vr x11/xterm-206_1
pkg_add: package 'xterm-206_1' or its older version already
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
Hi,
I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read Absolute BSD and still
I can't understand FreeBSD Ports/Packages esp when it comes to upgrading
via packages. I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so I'm not a
rough diamond.
rough diamond ... I like that idea.
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:37 -0500, fbsd_user wrote:
do pkg_info
look in the output for xterm. it will contain its complete name
if its name in the list output is xterm-203 then
I did that.
pkg_delete xterm-203 this will remove it
It says dependencies on xorg-clients.
Another poster said
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 20:32 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:58, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
Hi,
I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read Absolute BSD
and still
$pkg_add -vr x11/xterm-206_1
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:02 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so I'm not a
rough diamond.
rough diamond ... I like that idea. :D
haha..
As mentioned by one other poster, -f will force the deinstall.
Not an option for me.
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
Hi,
I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read Absolute BSD and still
I can't understand FreeBSD Ports/Packages esp when it comes to upgrading
via packages. I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so I'm not a
rough diamond.
Problem statement.
FreeBSD-Release-6
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:36 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
what about the dependency then? Ignore it? What if there are files
needed by xorg-clients? eg: libXX.so.Y and which is not present in
the new xterm?
Since you want to
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:58 -0600, Eric Schuele wrote:
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
In gentoo, it's a simple emerge xterm and all will be done
automatically. (Granted, this is compile from source and not from binary
packages, which I know can do cd /usr/ports/x11/xterm make install
clean, but
I am also a user of the packages.
Each new release of FreeBSD has a ftp package directory that matches
the release. That is where the pkg_add -r command goes to get your
packages. The 4.11 release would have the words '4.11-release' in the
directory name. Time passes and we now have 5.4 and 6.0
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:02 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so I'm not a
rough diamond.
rough diamond ... I like that idea. :D
haha..
As mentioned by one other poster, -f will force the deinstall.
Not an option for me.
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:58 -0600, Eric Schuele wrote:
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
In gentoo, it's a simple emerge xterm and all will be done
automatically. (Granted, this is compile from source and not from binary
packages, which I know can do cd /usr/ports/x11/xterm make install
Eric Schuele writes:
The only thing (again) unnerving is this statement.
[snip]
pkg_delete: package 'gettext-0.14.5' is required by these other packages
and may not be deinstalled (but I'll delete it anyway): --- *anyway*??
bash-3.1.10
[/snip]
Don't worry. Its
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