Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:59:10 +0100 From: <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com> To: Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>, <freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Installing gnome2 with XFree86-4 - Why is this so difficilt????? Message-ID: <1027267150.3d3ada4e19ce0@netmail.pipex.net> In-Reply-To: <PBz3TBB3MtO9Ews2@caomhin.demon.co.uk> References: <1027264013.3d3ace0d2ae43@netmail.pipex.net> <PBz3TBB3MtO9Ews2@caomhin.demon.co.uk>
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Hi Kevin, Thanks for taking the time to answer the queries I posed. I'm actually running the re-install of XFree86-4 at the moment wihtout having done a make distclean. Is this the reason why for each component, it fails with "error: XFree86-4<component> already installed, perhaps an older version..,"? Would it be in my interest then to stop this and restart from the beginning? Thanks again. Stacey Quoting Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk>: > Someone, quite probably Stacey Roberts, once wrote: > >1] From the *one* reply I've had to my earlier post concerning the > gnome2 > >install failure, it appear that I have to re-install XFree86-4.2.0. Why > is that > >after running pkg_delete on XFree86-4.0.2, "make" doesn't go out and > get a > >fresh set of files for the re-install? > > > >Am I missing something about the make process here? Presumably there > was > >something wrong with the XFree86-4 sources I got yesterday when I > installed it, > >so I would have thought it logical that I should be obtaining a fresh > set of > >source files for the new install. > > To fetch new sources you need to remove the old ones from > /usr/ports/distfiles. You can either manually rm each tarball or just > run "make distclean" before "make". > > It can also be worth running "make fetch" as your first step to install > a port as that simply downloads any files you are missing for that port > (although not dependencies). > > >2] To do the install of XFree86-4 anyways, what I did was pkg_delete of > XFree86- > >3 in /var/db/pkg; rm -rf /usr/X11R6/*, then editing /etc/make.conf to > reflect > >that the XFree version is now 4 > > Since 4.6 I believe the default X has been 4 making such a config > redundant. It might be worth running through /etc/defaults/make.conf > and seeing if you need to change anything else. If you're not using 4.6 > then don't worry about it. > > Kevin > -- > kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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