From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 24 04:40:35 2005 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 4302D16A41F for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 04:40:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfarmour@myrealbox.com) Received: from pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D37D743D49 for ; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 04:40:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfarmour@myrealbox.com) Received: from pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.23]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0INB00M990ZM0H90@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:40:34 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml1so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.145]) by pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0INB00IL00ZMFC20@pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:40:34 -0600 (MDT) Received: from s0106000d87ae2db6.gv.shawcable.net (S0106000d87ae2db6.gv.shawcable.net [24.108.158.228]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0INB0059K0ZL0W@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:40:34 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:41:39 -0700 From: David Armour In-reply-to: <4333F782.3080004@scls.lib.wi.us> To: Greg Barniskis , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200509232141.39874.dfarmour@myrealbox.com> Organization: dfa@no_spam.net MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200509212203.35549.dfarmour@myrealbox.com> <57416b30050922232617728fd@mail.gmail.com> <4333F782.3080004@scls.lib.wi.us> User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Subject: Re: NEWBIE: how-to for feeding file to gnomealyzer.sh? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 04:40:35 -0000 hello greg, thanks for your response. > In a couple of cases where I had issues like this with gnome > installation (and the XML-Parser thing sounds awfully > familiar), I think I found that it was most efficient to do the gnome faq, as well as the information that the gnomelogalyzer puts out, seems to suggest portupgrading -a as a front line of defence. sadly, this approach seems to conflict with the /usr/ports/UPDATING, esp. wrt KDE, at least as far as i understand it. YMMV, & YMNEGTCS... (you may not even get the car started.) etc., etc. > gnome very much depends on other things being up to date > though. Modify to suit your port management habits. well, yes. in a moment of hubris, i went ahead and portupgraded the cups-base port, thinking that a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, i was also looking to get a second-hand laserprinter working with cups.... [up-music: theme from jaws?] > Note that my recipe will have you using perl5.8 during the > gnome upgrade. The tip on using 5.6.2 instead might be another i seem to recall a perl something or other flashing by on one of those root terminal screens. how does one preserve the information on those screensful? it's clunking away on something to do with koffice at the moment. -- = df(dave)armourmyrealboxcalm! =