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Date:      Sun, 4 Mar 2001 03:19:12 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Duraid <latif2221@home.com>
Cc:        "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: installing kde2.1 ended up with kde2.0??????
Message-ID:  <20010304031912.C30935@mollari.cthul.hu>
In-Reply-To: <3AA1C1EE.4E2D6AC6@home.com>; from latif2221@home.com on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:17:50PM -0500
References:  <3AA1C1EE.4E2D6AC6@home.com>

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On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:17:50PM -0500, Duraid wrote:
> i downloaded the meta port of kde 2.1 to my /tmp. it was in the for of
> kde2.tar and here is what i did:
> 
> yellow# cd /tmp/
> yellow# tar xvf kde2.tar (it tared a pub directory)
> yellow# cd pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/x11/kde2/
> yellow# make install
> 
> and ended up with kde 2.0  ???  WHAT HAPPENED??

Evidently you grabbed the port tarball from the website before it had
been updated.  That only happens every few days - it's not the primary
supported means of updating ports.

> I'VE BEEN COMPILING FOR 2 DAYS NOW

If compilation time is a factor, why don't you just download the
packages?

Kris

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