From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 15 20:16:01 2004 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 E1ED816A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:16:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from typhoon.enabled.com (typhoon.enabled.com [216.218.220.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B304A43D5A for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:16:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Received: from enabled.com (localhost.enabled.com [127.0.0.1]) by typhoon.enabled.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iBFKFwvM009903; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:15:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) From: "Noah" To: Ian Moore , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:15:58 -0800 Message-Id: <20041215201504.M27573@enabled.com> In-Reply-To: <200412151820.53919.imoore@picknowl.com.au> References: <6FC9F9894A9F8C49A722CF9F2132FC2202A7A4BF@ms05.mailstreet2003.net> <20041215011800.M29112@enabled.com> <200412151820.53919.imoore@picknowl.com.au> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.41 20040926 X-OriginatingIP: 67.161.56.189 (admin2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: Re: php4 install has conflicts 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: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:16:02 -0000 > > I could be wrong about this, but I don't believe you need to > reinstall those ports. Just force delete all old versions of mod- > php4 and then install the new version of php4 or mod-php4 (whichever > one you actually want). The other ports shouldn't need to be > reinstalled, because the new version of php installs to the same > location as the old version. Hence the ports that use it will just > use the new version automatically. You may also want to clean up the > duplicate gallery versions by using pkg_delete -f to remove both > versions and then install just the latest version of gallery. > > To avoid this problem in the future, always use portupgrade to > upgrade your ports. That way you won't get multiple versions installed! okay thank you, do you know of a command that can show me all the ports that are installed on my machine? is there a nice tutorial that explains how to use the ports efficiently and safetly? cheers, Noah > > Cheers, > -- > Ian Moore > > GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc