Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 19:47:51 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?L=E1szl=F3_Nagy?= <nagylzs@freemail.hu> To: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add question Message-ID: <43BEBB57.6060203@freemail.hu> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420601070449o258804bct945a6b7acd74ae90@mail.gmail.com> References: <43BCF512.3050601@freemail.hu> <cb5206420601070449o258804bct945a6b7acd74ae90@mail.gmail.com>
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Andrew P. wrote: >On 1/5/06, László Nagy <nagylzs@freemail.hu> wrote: > > >> Hello All, >> >>I tried to install the Xorg server and xfce4 from the binary >>distribution, using >> >>pkg_add -r >> >>I could setup the Xorg server, but I cannot use xfce. When I run >> >>startxfce4 >> >>then I get the following message: >> >>/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libobject-2.0.so.0" not found, >>required by "xfce4-sesion". >> >>I read somewhere that I need to update glib. But I cannot do this with >>pkg_add. >> >>pkg_add -r glib >> >>tells me that glib (or an older version of it) is already installed. Now >>I'm trying to upgrade glib with >> >>portupgrade -r glib >> >>and probably it will work. But it will take a long time to recompile >>every package that I have in binary format. The big advantage of using >>pkg_add is that I do not need to recompile everything from the ports >>tree. I have a slow machine and limited disk space. But it looks like I >>have no choice. Upgrading glib from the ports will cause many packages >>to be downloaded and recompiled from source. I could not find any way to >>update my packages in binary form. If there is a way, please help me >>finding it. >> >>Thanks, >> >> Les >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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" >> >> >> > >"portupgrade -PP" will only use binary packages. Try >portupagrade -aPP > > Whew! :-) You are my man! I'm going to use portupgrade instead of pkg_add, from this point. :-) Thank you! Les
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