Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 07:36:39 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> To: 'Michael Lucas' <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> Cc: Otter <otterr@telocity.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: deleting XF863 w/o package? Message-ID: <8C224DC088D8D111B67D0000F67AC17E0306D509@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> In-Reply-To: <20001025180226.A76950@blackhelicopters.org>
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I'm in a similar situation. I have XF863 installed on my system. I went to XF86 website, downloaded the bin files for ver 4 and then used their upgrade script to upgrade my system. ASFAIK, I followed their instructions exactly and didn't received any errors during the upgrade process. However, when I run X -showinfo (I think that's the command), it reports that I am still using ver 3.6. First question: Does this command actually look at the Xserver and report or does it just display the contents of some file? In other words, am I really running 3.6 or did some file not get updated during the upgrade? Second question: At this point, I would like to remove all traces of XF86 and KDE ver 1.x and start over as I have never gotten them to work properly. I can only use them in root so I assume I have file permission problems. Anyway, I'd like to start over. What are the proper steps for cleaning my system? I have both the handbook and the Complete FreeBSD book so if there are relevant pages, please point me there. I am a newbie to both Unix and FreeBSD but understand DOS and OpenVMS so I'm not new to command line computing. TIA for your help! Drew > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Lucas [mailto:mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org] > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 3:02 PM > To: Tim McMillen > Cc: Otter; questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: deleting XF863 w/o package? > > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 05:30:27PM -0400, Tim McMillen wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Otter wrote: > > > You could always wipe > > > out your /dev directory for a little excitement! > > > -Otter > > I'm dumb, not stupid. :) > > > Yeah, if one port want to write over another it pretty much > just does. > > The new port works well and the old one, I personally don't > know here what > > happens to it and would be interested to know. > > If you have multiple packages that want to put the a binary of the > same name in the same place, the last one in will overwrite it. > You'll have one complete package, and part of another package. Quite > a recipe for pain. > > You did the right thing; pkg_delete them all, and pkg_add what you > want. > > > -- > Michael Lucas > mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org > http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ > Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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