From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 2 14:07:43 2003 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 3389437B401 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:07:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83AA943F3F for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:07:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sandshrimp@attbi.com) Received: from attbi.com (12-228-93-40.client.attbi.com[12.228.93.40]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with SMTP id <2003040222074100200733ike>; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 22:07:41 +0000 Message-ID: <3E8AEF1C.1040104@attbi.com> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 14:09:32 +0000 From: Ryan Merrick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021026 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bborie Park References: <200304022151.h32Lplt27977@citheronia.ucdavis.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Properly installing the XFree86 4.3.0 port on Freebsd 5 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, 02 Apr 2003 22:07:43 -0000 Bborie Park wrote: >Hi, > >I've been trying to install the X 4.3.0 Port on a full install of FreeBSD 5 >Release. In regards to my attempts at installing, I've got several questions. > >1. By default, the initial full install puts XFree86 4.2.0 on the system. >How do I properly overwrite/uninstall this so that 4.3.0 can replace it? >When I use 'make install clean' in the XFree86-4 port and examine using >pkg_version, there are two XFree86s. > >2. A little more desperate. How do I properly install the 4.3.0 port? I've >tried numerous times in XFree86-4 as well as its client, libraries, server >and fonts directories and every time it fails. > >Any help/advice would be great. > >Thanks >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > 1. Use portupgrade (1) . Read the man page. 2. Try updating imake first. 3. Subscribe to freebsd-current. There have been a number of threads along this line. -Ryan