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Date:      Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:59:10 +0100
From:      <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com>
To:        Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>, <freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Installing gnome2  with XFree86-4 - Why is this so difficilt?????
Message-ID:  <1027267150.3d3ada4e19ce0@netmail.pipex.net>
In-Reply-To: <PBz3TBB3MtO9Ews2@caomhin.demon.co.uk>
References:  <1027264013.3d3ace0d2ae43@netmail.pipex.net> <PBz3TBB3MtO9Ews2@caomhin.demon.co.uk>

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Hi Kevin,
   Thanks for taking the time to answer the queries I posed.

I'm actually running the re-install of XFree86-4 at the moment wihtout having 
done a make distclean. Is this the reason why for each component, it fails 
with "error: XFree86-4<component> already installed, perhaps an older 
version..,"?

Would it be in my interest then to stop this and restart from the beginning?

Thanks again.

Stacey

Quoting Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk>:

> Someone, quite probably Stacey Roberts, once wrote:
> >1] From the *one* reply I've had to my earlier post concerning the
> gnome2 
> >install failure, it appear that I have to re-install XFree86-4.2.0. Why
> is that 
> >after running pkg_delete on XFree86-4.0.2, "make" doesn't go out and
> get a 
> >fresh set of files for the re-install?
> >
> >Am I missing something about the make process here? Presumably there
> was 
> >something wrong with the XFree86-4 sources I got yesterday when I
> installed it, 
> >so I would have thought it logical that I should be obtaining a fresh
> set of 
> >source files for the new install.
> 
> To fetch new sources you need to remove the old ones from
> /usr/ports/distfiles.  You can either manually rm each tarball or just
> run "make distclean" before "make".
> 
> It can also be worth running "make fetch" as your first step to install
> a port as that simply downloads any files you are missing for that port
> (although not dependencies).
> 
> >2] To do the install of XFree86-4 anyways, what I did was pkg_delete of
> XFree86-
> >3 in /var/db/pkg; rm -rf /usr/X11R6/*, then editing /etc/make.conf to
> reflect 
> >that the XFree version is now 4
> 
> Since 4.6 I believe the default X has been 4 making such a config
> redundant.  It might be worth running through /etc/defaults/make.conf
> and seeing if you need to change anything else.  If you're not using 4.6
> then don't worry about it.
> 
> Kevin
> -- 
> kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk
> 




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