Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:12:07 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> To: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox Message-ID: <41FFFEB7.7080307@cis.strath.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <41FFF49B.4000606@nbritton.org> References: <f40f0e505020112372ec229d6@mail.gmail.com> <41FFF49B.4000606@nbritton.org>
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Nikolas Britton wrote: > Alfredo Perez wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I just updated my ports and installed Firefox. I have installed >> Firefox version 0.9.3. How can I update it to version 1.0? >> >> Thanks >> >> PS: I am running FreeBSD 5.3 >> >> >> > Your post is a bit ambiguous. did you have 0.9.3 on your system and > wanted to upgrade to 1.0 or did you update your ports but it installed > 0.9.3? > > What I would do: > > my ports-sup file: > > #*default host=cvsup14.us.FreeBSD.org > *default host=cvsup12.us.FreeBSD.org > #*default host=cvsup1.FreeBSD.org > #*default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/var/db > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=. > *default delete use-rel-suffix > *default compress > ports-all > > ----------------------------- > > su > # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile > (normally i'd just run pkg_version -v |grep "<" and if needed > portupgrade after cvsuping, if I was upgrading something like Gnome or > KDE i'd exit X) > # cd /usr/ports/www/firefox > # make deinstall > # more M* > # make WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=yes install clean > # exit > > rehash > > firefox& > > exit > > > ______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Could his problem be that he has simply not fetched the index? I normally do: # cvsup -g -L2 /usr/ports-supfile .. .. # cd /usr/ports # make fetchindex # portsdb -u and then I would try reinstalling it using the method above. Chris
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