From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 25 03:02:02 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFACE16A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 03:02:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sanddollar.geekisp.com (sanddollar.geekisp.com [204.89.131.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE37D43D1F for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 03:02:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from njt@dune.geekisp.com) Received: (qmail 29377 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2005 03:02:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (192.168.4.35) by mail.geekisp.com with QMQP; 25 Mar 2005 03:02:01 -0000 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:02:23 -0500 From: "N.J. Thomas" To: Chuck Swiger Message-ID: <20050325030223.GB9021@ayvali.org> References: <20050324011607.GA1199@ayvali.org> <42421B87.5000509@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42421B87.5000509@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: greetings from FreeBSD DLL Hell! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 03:02:02 -0000 * Chuck Swiger [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