Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:34:26 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: John <john@starfire.mn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Out of the frying pan... Message-ID: <200501141534.26119.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <20050114141204.A10926@starfire.mn.org> References: <20050113152405.A5302@starfire.mn.org> <200501141332.03416.algould@datawok.com> <20050114141204.A10926@starfire.mn.org>
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On Friday 14 January 2005 02:12 pm, John wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:32:03PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > On Friday 14 January 2005 12:23 pm, John wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:19:20PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > > >3. Definitely go with a clean installation of FreeBSD 5.3 > > > > > rather than 5.2.1. > > > > > > > > Just a sidenote, I did a source upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.3, > > > > which basically worked okay. > > > > Switching from XFree to X.org was really troublesome, on the > > > > other hand... > > > > > > Yes, I would say that the source upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.3-STABLE > > > was fine, it was the xorg/XFree86 and kde issues that made me > > > insane. It's possible that I should have just done a pkg_delete > > > -a and started over with the packages from that point, but I also > > > need to learn to use pkg_upgrade. I would not hesitate to do the > > > source upgrade again for a system which is NOT running X. > > > > > > I have now reinstalled 5.3, just to get around the Xorg->XFree86 > > > issue, and I have kde installed, and I have room to spare. So, > > > I'm much farther than I was when I ran out of room, and I still > > > have room. This is a good thing! > > > > Yes it is! (...and speaking as someone who is typing with 2 > > fractured wrists, all good news is welcome!) > > Oh, no! I'd ask what happened, but I'll wait until you're healed > up... Indoor soccer injury -- the floor is concrete. > > > I hope you have lots of fun and joy with your system before the > > next challenge (which we will gladly participate in) ! > > OK, well, it seems I spoke just a little bit too soon. Or, maybe I'm > OK, but just worried. > > I downloaded and burned an ISO 5.3 CD. I did a minimal install, > NFS mounted all the 5-stable packages I kept from the last time > around (I'm not a COMPLETE idiot!) and simply did a "pkg_add > kde-lite*". That got me a long, long ways. I also needed to do > a "pkg_add xorg-server*" but I think nearly everything else got > loaded up. I was in great shape in terms of disk footprint and > everything else I can tell from here. > > Now, at this point, I'm running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, but I've > installed packages from FreeBSD 5-STABLE, but if my understanding > is correct, that should be OK. > > This is the point at which things got interesting. I did the > pkg_add for OOo - and found that I was missing four dependent > packages. As luck would have it, all four of them have been > updated since I started this process, so I downloaded and installed > the newer revv'ed ones, but I got an error message that > something (I wished I'd trapped the output) wanted libm.so.2. > When I look around, I find that I have libm.so.3. The four > packages were atk, pango, shared-mime-info, and gtk-2. I > think one of the post-install scripts complained that it couldn't > run something, > > Am I preparing trouble, or am I OK? Despite the warning, everything > seems to be installing. Obviously, I wasn't able to install the > newer packages as dependencies, but after installing them by hand, > the things on which they depended seem to be installing OK, though > with warnings. > > Anyway, I have everything installed, (except maybe a JDK - any > suggestions?) and I'm at 80% in my combined root /usr partition, > which feels a little tighter than I would like, but I do still have > 270Mb free, so that's not too bad - that's larger than my first > FreeBSD hard drive! :) > > OO just finished. Other than 16 packages that are newer than > expected, it seems to have installed. I'm not actually with the > machine, so I can't start X and kde and try it. > > Am I OK, or should I start over and redo something? If the package finished installing, everything may be okay (no guarantees). Create a list of frequent tasks in OpenOffice; and run OpenOffice through its paces. Andrew Gould
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