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Date:      Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:11:08 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Upgrading to XFree86 4.3.x
Message-ID:  <20030307051108.GA3578@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030307080025.00a31410@127.0.0.1>
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:05:45AM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote:
> What's the currently recommended way to upgrade from XFree86 3.x to 4.x? =
I=20
> remember last year seeing recommendations to ininstall XFree86 3.x,=20
> uninstall all apps using X that you might have, delete /usr/X11R6/bin, an=
d=20
> then install XFree86 4.x.
>=20
> Is this still the recommended way to avoid problems

Yes.  In fact you should remove /usr/X11R6 entirely to get rid of
stale files (which may interfere with X 4.x applications)

Kris

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