Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:44:32 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, weif@weif.net Cc: Daniel Marsh <jahilliya@gmail.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't upgrade - catch-22 Message-ID: <200710271844.37010.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200710280038.l9S0cccD010691@maxine.cjones.org> References: <200710222014.l9MKE5QW013875@maxine.cjones.org> <ba5e78ea0710270016j657ce89eiac3a30af9e56e081@mail.gmail.com> <200710280038.l9S0cccD010691@maxine.cjones.org>
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On Saturday 27 October 2007, Keith Seyffarth said: > > Why don't you just manually remove Xorg and then install it with > > portinstall? > > ie. pkg_delete -f xorg\* > > > > That'll remove all packages that start with the characters xorg. > > Install the newer version of Xorg then upgrade portupgrade, then > > upgrade the packages that depended on xorg. > > Well, now that x is uninstalled, you still can't install it without > having already installed it... It still generates the 'can't set > default xbase' error. > > Any recommendations now that X has been uninstalled? try: setenv X11BASE /usr/X11R6 then rebuild portupgrade. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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