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Date:      Fri, 22 Jan 1999 06:20:33 +0100
From:      Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se>
To:        David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: More about ports and packages and XFree86
Message-ID:  <19990122062033.D12229@sr.se>
In-Reply-To: <002701be459d$28f0bc00$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com>; from David Shanes on Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 04:21:31PM -0800
References:  <002701be459d$28f0bc00$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com>

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On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 04:21:31PM -0800, David Shanes wrote:
> To add more info - I installed XFree86 when I installed 2.2.6 -release, but
> never used it as it lacked support for the Neomagic chipset. I want to
> install 3.3.3 since it now has support. Do I need to *uninstall* the old
> version first?

Depends on how you got the 3.3.3 I,ve made upgrades of my XFree86 using
the preinst.sh and postinst.sh that comes with the binaries I fetched at
ftp.xfree86.org. This is an easy way to go I think. Read all the
README's and other capital letter files! Quite easy actually.

Gunnar

> Thanks,
> David
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