From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 22 11:21: 6 2003 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 1904D37B401 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:21:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A537743F93 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:21:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (root@tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h1MJL2I81307; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:21:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.12.6/8.11.3) id h1MJL131055419; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:21:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:20:59 -0800 From: Gary D Kline To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" Cc: Gary D Kline , David Cramblett , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: from GNOME to KDE Message-ID: <20030222192059.GA45571@tao.thought.org> References: <20030221191832.GA37921@tao.thought.org> <200302211959.04441.bts@babbleon.org> <20030222011517.GB38989@tao.thought.org> <200302212042.47952.bts@babbleon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302212042.47952.bts@babbleon.org> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 16 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i 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 On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 08:42:47PM -0500, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > > Oh, well, what I did was get out of my X entirely to console mode, > then > > pkg_delete 'qt*' 'kde*' > > and then > > build it from ports. > > This worked great, and my experience trying to do that sort of thing > piecemeal has not been good. > > Alternatively you could set an alternate prefix for the new QT and then > try to get KDE to use the alternate prefix as its load library location > but my record trying that sort of thing has not been good. > I chose the pkg_delete -f method, then upgraded my hand. Overnight. Still need to have the portupgrade util check things, but it looks like KDE3 is ready. You're right: piecemeal is the worst way... . gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message