Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:02:23 -0500 From: "N.J. Thomas" <njt@ayvali.org> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: greetings from FreeBSD DLL Hell! Message-ID: <20050325030223.GB9021@ayvali.org> In-Reply-To: <42421B87.5000509@mac.com> References: <20050324011607.GA1199@ayvali.org> <42421B87.5000509@mac.com>
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* Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> [2005-03-23 20:44:39 -0500]: > > now I seem to find myself in the FreeBSD equivalent of "DLL Hell". > > Should I just blow my system away and start from scratch? > > Oh, goodness no-- almost anything that goes wrong with a system can be > fixed without reinstalling. The key is to solve the problem the right > way. :-) Thanks for the tip! I almost blew my system away before I saw your email. The solution in this case was to delete all the packages (there were only a few that I had installed anyways), update the ports tree, and then start installing from there. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas njt@ayvali.org Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo
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