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Subject: Re: Upgrading X from 3.3.6 to 4.0.3 
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Sorry, had the silly thing in reverse.  err...  Missed the check for send
email as text.

Anyway, thanks to all who replied.  Gonna give it a shot this evening then.

Thanks!
CK

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To: "NOC - Kulish Consulting" <noc@kulish.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: Upgrading X from 3.3.6 to 4.0.3


> > From: "NOC - Kulish Consulting" <noc@kulish.com>
> > Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 11:24:32 -0500
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> >
> > I want to upgrade my X to the 4.0.3 release (in ports) from my 3.3.6.  =
> > Any gotchas that I need to be aware of?
> >
> > Do I just do the make, make install?
>
> You will be much more popular around here if you stop sending HTML
> mail to the FreeBSD lists.
>
> It has been widely recommended that you delete the contents of
> /usr/X11R6 before the "make install" as residual V3 files can cause
> really weird things to happen. I battled for hours with a Sony laptop
> until I nuked the X11R6 directory and re-installed clean.
>
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634



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