Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 15:49:37 +0300 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?L=E1szl=F3_Nagy?= <nagylzs@freemail.hu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add question Message-ID: <cb5206420601070449o258804bct945a6b7acd74ae90@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43BCF512.3050601@freemail.hu> References: <43BCF512.3050601@freemail.hu>
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On 1/5/06, L=E1szl=F3 Nagy <nagylzs@freemail.hu> wrote: > > Hello All, > > I tried to install the Xorg server and xfce4 from the binary > distribution, using > > pkg_add -r > > I could setup the Xorg server, but I cannot use xfce. When I run > > startxfce4 > > then I get the following message: > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libobject-2.0.so.0" not found, > required by "xfce4-sesion". > > I read somewhere that I need to update glib. But I cannot do this with > pkg_add. > > pkg_add -r glib > > tells me that glib (or an older version of it) is already installed. Now > I'm trying to upgrade glib with > > portupgrade -r glib > > and probably it will work. But it will take a long time to recompile > every package that I have in binary format. The big advantage of using > pkg_add is that I do not need to recompile everything from the ports > tree. I have a slow machine and limited disk space. But it looks like I > have no choice. Upgrading glib from the ports will cause many packages > to be downloaded and recompiled from source. I could not find any way to > update my packages in binary form. If there is a way, please help me > finding it. > > Thanks, > > Les > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > "portupgrade -PP" will only use binary packages. Try portupagrade -aPP
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