Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:20:59 -0800 From: Gary D Kline <kline@thought.org> To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: Gary D Kline <kline@thought.org>, David Cramblett <david@axisintegrated.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: from GNOME to KDE Message-ID: <20030222192059.GA45571@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <200302212042.47952.bts@babbleon.org> References: <20030221191832.GA37921@tao.thought.org> <200302211959.04441.bts@babbleon.org> <20030222011517.GB38989@tao.thought.org> <200302212042.47952.bts@babbleon.org>
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 08:42:47PM -0500, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > > Oh, well, what I did was get out of my X entirely to console mode, > then > > pkg_delete 'qt*' 'kde*' > > and then > > build it from ports. > > This worked great, and my experience trying to do that sort of thing > piecemeal has not been good. > > Alternatively you could set an alternate prefix for the new QT and then > try to get KDE to use the alternate prefix as its load library location > but my record trying that sort of thing has not been good. > I chose the pkg_delete -f method, then upgraded my hand. Overnight. Still need to have the portupgrade util check things, but it looks like KDE3 is ready. You're right: piecemeal is the worst way... . gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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