From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 8 21:46:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp014.mail.yahoo.com (smtp014.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CBC5337B403 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 21:46:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unknown (HELO cheech.uchaswv.edu) (12.4.161.186) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Oct 2001 04:46:23 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 00:55:33 -0400 From: Nathan Mace To: freebsd-questions Subject: upgrading Xwindows Message-Id: <20011009005533.5abf12f3.nmace85@yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i'm currently running freebsd 4.4 stable...and i am using whatever version of Xwindows that came with freebsd 4.2....i think it's 3.3.6......anyway i want to upgrade to Xwindows 4.x....since X3.3.6 isn't in more packages database(it's not in pkg_info) how do i go about upgrading? is ther an issue with just installing 4.x from the ports over top of the existing install? or should i delete/uninstall the existing install first? if so how? are there any known issues between freebsd and X4.x? thanks nathan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message