From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 6:30:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from voyager.c-com.net (voyager.c-com.net [209.127.0.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD40415519 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 06:30:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbrock@mail.phoenix.net) Received: from fdho-w5.fdnet.com (dial35.as2.c-com.net [209.127.52.141]) by voyager.c-com.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA09739; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 08:29:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Reply-To: tbrock@mail.phoenix.net Organization: NA To: ChrisMic@clientlogic.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: KDE themes Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 08:20:41 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105CC0@site2s1> In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105CC0@site2s1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99100408310700.37693@fdho-w5.fdnet.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, you wrote: > Folks, > Every seems to be sidestepping the solution. Install KDE 1.1.2, which is in > the current ports collection and that does have the theme manager. > > -Chris I'd like to add a little insight on installing the 1.1.2 port. This actually applies to ALL ports if you maintain an older system. I've found that you can avoid many headaches if you reinstall every port dependancy when dealing with window managers. It seems to me that we need better version control in the dependancy tree. Just because a /var/db/pkg/portname says it is installed doesn't necessarily mean the correct version is really there. Find the dependent libraries and api's in /usr/ports (graphics and x11), make deinstall and make reinstall those suckers if you have any problems. I even went so far as to reinstall dependencies of those such as libtool and gettext just to get a few of these libraries to compile correctly. This is on a cvsup'ed 3.3-R/ports machine and I've seen problems like this for a long time. If there is some utility to help avoid these situations I've not yet run across it. Tony To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message