From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 7 11:52:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 8473F16A41F for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:52:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from smtp1.suscom.net (smtp1.suscom.net [64.78.119.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F172443D45 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 11:52:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from localhost (smtp1 [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1.suscom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27E41D821E for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 06:52:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from smtp1.suscom.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 05226-03 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 06:52:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from seibercom.net (ip148.217.susc.suscom.net [216.45.217.148]) by smtp1.suscom.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AB59D821C for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 06:52:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (budman [192.168.0.2]) by seibercom.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k07Bqeq3054711 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 06:52:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 06:52:42 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: gerard@seibercom.net Organization: Seibercom.net In-Reply-To: <43BCF512.3050601@freemail.hu> References: <43BCF512.3050601@freemail.hu> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20060107065032.6385.GERARD@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.24.01 [en] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new .250 at suscom.net Subject: Re: pkg_add question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:52:43 -0000 László Nagy > > 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 > Why don't you use portmanager (sysutils/portmanager) to install those files? It will bring in and update the required files. -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net