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Date:      Thu, 25 Jul 2002 06:22:25 -0400
From:      Jud <jud@myrealbox.com>
To:        Shannon -jj Behrens <jj@nttmcl.com>, sroberts@dsl.pipex.com
Cc:        sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pkg_add -r XFree86-4 fails - How do I tell pkg_add to look somewhere else for target?
Message-ID:  <07NHXTHEUTVSOLFC04C9TNS1TOJ09.3d3fd161@sparky>
In-Reply-To: <1027582853.3d3fab8531b02@netmail.pipex.net>

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7/25/2002 3:40:53 AM, <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

>
>Hi Shannon,
>   Thanks for the information.
>
>I did that and can now start gnome fine *as root only*. I do have 
wrapper
>installed, but "startx" as non-root user fails.
>
>I searched the archives and saw lots of replies to posts of the "cannot 
use
>startx as non-root user" advising to install wrapper. However, like I said, 
I
>already have this installed.
>
>All attempts to re-install via pkg_delete wrapper.x errors with a warning 
that
>XFree86-4.2.1 depends on wrapper.
>
>Is there a config option for wrapper or XFree86Config that I missed 
somewhere?
>
>Stacey

What does the XFree86= line say in /etc/make.conf?  If it's equal to 
version 4, you want it *un*commented; if it's equal to version 3, you want 
to comment it out.  Then go to the wrapper port directory and 

make deinstall clean && make reinstall clean

HTH,

Jud




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