Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:09:57 -0800 From: Tabor Kelly <tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net> To: saravanan ganapathy <sarav_gsa@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port update problem - newbie Message-ID: <41F20A55.8030803@taborandtashell.net> In-Reply-To: <20050121152741.3171.qmail@web51702.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050121152741.3171.qmail@web51702.mail.yahoo.com>
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saravanan ganapathy wrote: <snip> > --- Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> wrote: > Since I am very new to freebsd, I am not sure abt the > ports collections which I don't want. Since you are new, I will give you some (ports) advice: 1. Always update all of your ports so that you can use portupgrade. 2. Use portupgrade. 3. Read /usr/ports/UPDATING if you want things to go smoothly. 4. If you forget step 3, and step 3 happens to have some bad news in it (usually pertaining to gettext), 'portupgrade -rRf [some port]' can work wonders. 5. Don't forget to do a 'portsdb -uU' after cvsup'ing your ports. My quick start to portupgrade: http://tabor.taborandtashell.net/serversetup/ports.html Where I learned about portupgrade: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html -- Tabor Kelly tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net http://tabor.taborandtashell.net
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