Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:18:02 -0500 From: "NOC - Kulish Consulting" <noc@kulish.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Upgrading X from 3.3.6 to 4.0.3 Message-ID: <016301c0eae0$57dab9e0$e447a10a@INGGHZI7WHJAYP> References: <200106012105.f51L5Lc21981@ptavv.es.net>
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Sorry, had the silly thing in reverse. err... Missed the check for send email as text. Anyway, thanks to all who replied. Gonna give it a shot this evening then. Thanks! CK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "NOC - Kulish Consulting" <noc@kulish.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 4:05 PM Subject: Re: Upgrading X from 3.3.6 to 4.0.3 > > From: "NOC - Kulish Consulting" <noc@kulish.com> > > Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 11:24:32 -0500 > > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > I want to upgrade my X to the 4.0.3 release (in ports) from my 3.3.6. = > > Any gotchas that I need to be aware of? > > > > Do I just do the make, make install? > > You will be much more popular around here if you stop sending HTML > mail to the FreeBSD lists. > > It has been widely recommended that you delete the contents of > /usr/X11R6 before the "make install" as residual V3 files can cause > really weird things to happen. I battled for hours with a Sony laptop > until I nuked the X11R6 directory and re-installed clean. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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