From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 21:11:11 2003 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 20B0437B401 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:11:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-52.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7D343FA3 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:11:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0977F66B37; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:11:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DE22F1285; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:11:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:11:08 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Roger Merritt Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading to XFree86 4.3.x Message-ID: <20030307051108.GA3578@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030307080025.00a31410@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030307080025.00a31410@127.0.0.1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:05:45AM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote: > What's the currently recommended way to upgrade from XFree86 3.x to 4.x? = I=20 > remember last year seeing recommendations to ininstall XFree86 3.x,=20 > uninstall all apps using X that you might have, delete /usr/X11R6/bin, an= d=20 > then install XFree86 4.x. >=20 > Is this still the recommended way to avoid problems Yes. In fact you should remove /usr/X11R6 entirely to get rid of stale files (which may interfere with X 4.x applications) Kris --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+aCnsWry0BWjoQKURAr7zAKC2b08e5BEHovxvBFpQzSmfq5DLWwCgvBZZ 4vw/PlIljAtl8Y8ZXaRiO60= =QjhK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message