Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 01:01:53 -0600 (CST) From: <burningclown@westhost43.westhost.net> To: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: can't build anything Gnome Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201270101230.15036-100000@westhost43.westhost.net> In-Reply-To: <20020126224809.E22187@johncoop.MSHOME>
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Thanks! -g On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > Not much a GNOME problem really. Your tree has inconsistent shared > libraries in it. For example, with multiple versions of libpng > installed (which you clearly have), it's a miracle much of anything > works. > > Although reasonable minds may differ, I like portupgrade. One way to > solve your problem (there are many others) is to: > > 1) install portupgrade > 2) read the documentation > 3) run pkgdb -FuU (or a commandline similar to above) > 4) run portsclean -D (to get rid of obsolote shared libraries) > 4a) run cvsup to update the ports tree > 5) run pkgdb as above again (important to have a consistent database) > 6) run portupgrade -a (to update all your installed ports to the most > recent version) > 7) deinstall all ORBit ports that you have installed (if they are) > 8) install the GNOME meta-port in x11/gnome > > Things should work better after this . . . > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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