From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 12:42:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD20156E4 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:42:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from psych ([203.41.44.246]) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA07338 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 07:43:42 +1100 Message-Id: <3.0.32.20000128074338.00740384@idx.com.au> X-Sender: dannyh@idx.com.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 07:43:41 +1100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Danny Subject: Why Doesn't XFree86 Upgrade Properly Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello - Need to upgrade to the latest XFree86 - I issued the following commands 1)tar xvf xfree86xxx.tar -C /somewhere/tmp/ 2)cd /usr/X11R6/ 3)chmod 755 /somewhere/tmp/xfree86xxxx/preinst.sh 4)chmod 755 /somewhere/tmp/xfree86xxxx/postinst.sh 5)chmod 755 /somewhere/tmp/xfree86xxxx/extract 6)/somewhere/tmp/xfree86xxxx/preinst.sh 7)/somewhere/tmp/xfree86xxxx/extract /var/tmp/xfree86xxxx/*.tgz 8)/somewhere/tmp/xfree86xxxx/postinst.sh 9)shutdown -r now When it reboots I typed : - man XFree86 Shows XFree863.3.5 When it should be XFree863.3.6 Question 1) Is their a simpler like pkg_add XFree863.3.6.tgz.? Can't find it on the BSD website 2) From what I did above what seems to be wrong? Please Cc This response to dannyh@alpha.net.au so I can read it at work. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message