From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 11:45:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E4E37B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:45:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (mailout6-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2D843E42 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:45:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from met@uberstats.com) Received: from SURVIVAL (rrcs-nys-24-97-200-196.biz.rr.com [24.97.200.196]) by mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/RoadRunner 1.20) with ESMTP id g7FIjTC15299; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:45:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "MET" To: "'Linh Pham'" Cc: Subject: RE: XFree86 Upgrade || XFree86 version Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:50:29 -0400 Message-ID: <002e01c2448c$a15b7170$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <20020815111339.M15133-100000@q.closedsrc.org> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Will installing from the ports wipe out my current version cleanly, or do I need to manually uninstall it first? If so, how? ~ Matthew -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Linh Pham Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:20 PM To: MET Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 Upgrade || XFree86 version On 2002-08-15, MET scribbled: # Ok well the /usr/X11R6/bin/X -version worked -- accordingly I'm running # XFree86 version 3.3.6. So how would I go about upgrading to the latest # version? There are two ways that you can install the latest version of XFree86 on your machine... 1. Ports You can install XFree86-4.2.0 from the ports collection under /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4. 2. Binaries from XFree86.org You can download the FreeBSD 4.x binaries from XFree86.org at: ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.2.0/binaries/FreeBSD-4.x/ Just download all of the files into a directory and run the following command within that directory as root: # sh Xinstall.sh It will walk you through the installation process, asking some questions about which packages you want or not. If you have enough drive space, choosing the defaults should be fine. If you are a bit tight on space, then tell it not to install the Docs, some of the non-English fonts, and possibly the Virtual Framebuffer stuff. The ports method is a bit easier, though it will take a while to download and compile (not as bad as say Mozilla or KDE3). -- Linh Pham lplist@closedsrc.org Webmaster and FreeBSD Geek http://closedsrc.org closedsrc.org Every solution breeds new problems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message