Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:18:36 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jeppe Larsen <jwl@io.dk> Subject: Re: xterm conflicts with xorg-clients Message-ID: <200511141118.36743.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.11.14.17.48.04.283039@io.dk> References: <pan.2005.11.14.17.02.43.659160@io.dk> <4378C7C0.8080308@dial.pipex.com> <pan.2005.11.14.17.48.04.283039@io.dk>
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On Monday 14 November 2005 09:48 am, Jeppe Larsen wrote: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:22:08 +0000, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > > Don't delete any of those dependencies! If you do then you will > > probably have to re-install those packages to get the dependencies > > back. > > > > I believe upgrading xorg-clients and then xterm should work, if > > only that damn xorg-clients port would compile! I found this link > > late last night which might help, but haven't tried it myself yet. > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-i386/2005-January/002040 > >.html > > > > If you don't want to do all that then you'll have to get the xterm > > port back to the state it was before cvsup. Either get it from a > > backup or try portdowngrade. Deleting xterm port *was* a bad idea, > > sorry. If you had left it alone then you'd be left with working > > xorg-client and xterm installed and could either chase the fix > > above at your leisure or wait for someone to fix it officially. > > > > Hope that helps, > > > > --Alex > > With portdowngrade i managed to install 206 again, so that might be > settled. It seems that the problem with xorg-client is another > matter, but this error in the link is from january, and the upgrade > to 6.8.2_1 is from yesterday?? I found that if I deleted xorg-clients and then xterm, I could reinstall xterm and then xorg-clients. I did this from a KDE session. After all of this was done, I ran pkgdb -F and it didn't have any problem connecting to xterm-206_1. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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