Date: 13 Sep 1999 23:50:00 +0200 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do I upgrade XFree86 Message-ID: <7rjri8$23eg$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <199909131626.LAA01866@cs.rice.edu>
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Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu> wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD-3.2 and I currently have XFree86-3.3.3.1 installed. > I want to upgrade this to the latest XFree86 release (I believe that's > XFree86-3.5). 3.3.5, actually. > Since XFree86 is not installed as a package, can someone please > tell me how I should go about it. Thanks, Well, I can tell you what I did today in pretty much the same situation. You could try to dig up a package list of 3.3.3.1 to properly remove all its files, but I didn't bother, especially since there shouldn't be much of a difference between 3.3.3 and 3.3.5. I simply went ahead and installed the ports (/usr/ports/x11) of XFree86 and XFree86-contrib over the previous installation. Actually, I did a "make install; make deinstall; make install", as the simplest way to remove leftovers from the previous installation, such as additional X servers, that wouldn't be overwritten by the new install. Don't forget to save your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm, if you have customized it. I forgot and had to restore it from a regular backup. ;-) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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