From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 10 20:54:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25BE037B400 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:54:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2B4sYO08214; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:54:34 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:54:34 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: "Paul C. Boyle" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE woes. Message-ID: <20020311175434.A8072@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <200203102356.SAA12416@alpha.vaxxine.com> <20020311154407.A7702@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <200203110427.XAA19591@alpha.vaxxine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200203110427.XAA19591@alpha.vaxxine.com>; from paulcb_mcse@yahoo.com on Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 11:28:04PM -0500 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 [Please don't remove Cc: freebsd-questions] On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 11:28:04PM -0500, Paul C. Boyle wrote: > Ok lets say I clean everything with pkg_dekete, > can I upgrade to KDE 2.2.2 with these packages? Best to use the ports. The packages *may* work, but the recent cvsup'd ports system will have the latest patches and fixes. > I've not had luck with packages, ports seem to do a better job. > Could I put these in /usr/ports distfiles and go from there? > [...] These look like packages to me. You could try them, as it will save you *heaps* of compile time, but see my comments above about the ports system. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "You can get farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone" - Al Capone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message