From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 25 14:30:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86CEC37B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gorf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@gorf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.147]) by donkeykong.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id RAA02126; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:30:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by gorf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id RAA19273; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:30:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:30:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@gorf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: Otter Cc: Michael Lucas , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: deleting XF863 w/o package? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Otter wrote: > Mike, > My girlfriend was in the same boat. She had installed XF86-3 via > sysinstall at the time of original installation a few weeks ago. Since > then, she had decided to install 4.01_3 and just built it from ports, > and configured as normal. I hate to be the one to disappoint, but it > doesn't seem like it'll be much of a problem. You could always wipe > out your /dev directory for a little excitement! > -Otter Yeah, if one port want to write over another it pretty much just does. The new port works well and the old one, I personally don't know here what happens to it and would be interested to know. I installed KDE-1.94 then installed the knapster port (just for frivolousness). It wanted KDE1.1.2 and a host of other stuff. It proceeded to pull it down and install it. This caused startx to start KDE 1.1.2. (Worked perfectly well) But Is there a way here to choose which version the startKDE in .xinitrc starts up? What I ended up doing was pkg_delete kdebase-1.1.2 then pkg_delete kdebase-1.94 then pkg_add kde_1.94. It worked, now I have kde1.94 (soon to be KDE 2-final if it compiles right. Thanks, Tim > } > }Hello, > } > }I'd like to install xf86-4, simply because my machine is performing > }too well and I need some system disruptions to improve my sysadmin > }skills. > } > }xf86-3 was installed at sysinstall. Therefore, there's no entry in > }/var/db/pkg. > } > }Can I safely write xf86-4 over xf86-3, or do I need to go through and > }manually delete the xf86-3 files? Is there an easy way to do that? > } > }Thanks, > } > }==ml > } > }-- > }Michael Lucas > }mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org > }http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ > }Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message