* Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-23 22:00:58 -0500]:
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:16 pm, N.J. Thomas wrote:
pkg_add -r foo. This worked, but it went and downloaded older
versions of various programs (i.e. Mozilla Firefox 0.9).
By default, pkg_add uses the packages that were built
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-23 23:06:25 -0500]:
here is real good install guide.
http://freebsd.packards-home.net/index.php
It has section on ports and packages.
Cool, it seems like a fairly well written and mostly up to date site.
I'm surprised I hadn't stumbled onto it before. Thanks for
* Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-23 18:21:05 -0800]:
Packages are built to work with the particular release specified. Once
ports are unfrozen, right before release, they start changing again,
and updating new packages for all ports for every minor version bump in
the tree is not
* Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-23 20:44:39 -0500]:
now I seem to find myself in the FreeBSD equivalent of DLL Hell.
Should I just blow my system away and start from scratch?
Oh, goodness no-- almost anything that goes wrong with a system can be
fixed without reinstalling. The
I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE and was installing packages via pkg_add
-r foo. This worked, but it went and downloaded older versions of
various programs (i.e. Mozilla Firefox 0.9). How can I tell pkg_add to
use the 5-latest (5-STABLE? RELENG_5_3?) branch? Do I have to update
my sources before I
Hello,
You may want to try portupgrade to bring everything up to date.
Here is a link to a tutorial:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html
--Nick
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N.J. Thomas wrote:
I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE and was installing packages via pkg_add
-r foo. This worked, but it went and downloaded older versions of
various programs (i.e. Mozilla Firefox 0.9). How can I tell pkg_add to
use the 5-latest (5-STABLE? RELENG_5_3?) branch? Do I have to update
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 17:16, N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE and was installing packages via
pkg_add -r foo. This worked, but it went and downloaded older
versions of various programs (i.e. Mozilla Firefox 0.9). How can I
tell pkg_add to use the
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 18:21, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
You don't need to reinstall the OS, but it might be simpler for you
if you deleted all the packages, with pkg_delete -a (from root). From
there you can install cvsup and other essentials, but you might
consider running
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:16 pm, N.J. Thomas wrote:
I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE and was installing packages via pkg_add
-r foo. This worked, but it went and downloaded older versions of
various programs (i.e. Mozilla Firefox 0.9). How can I tell pkg_add to
use the 5-latest (5-STABLE?
from FreeBSD DLL Hell!
I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE and was installing packages via
pkg_add
-r foo. This worked, but it went and downloaded older versions of
various programs (i.e. Mozilla Firefox 0.9). How can I tell pkg_add
to
use the 5-latest (5-STABLE? RELENG_5_3?) branch? Do I have to
update
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