From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 17:42:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA21270 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 17:42:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA21260 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 17:42:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA01259; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 17:39:11 -0800 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 17:39:11 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Gianluca Dini cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 In-Reply-To: <199601311653.RAA06468@dini.iet.unipi.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Gianluca Dini wrote: > i run FreeBSD 2.0 and i would like to install xfig-3.1. unfortunately, > the current packages distribution addresses FreeBSD-2.0.5 or higher. > can someone give me a suggestion? if possible, i would like > to avoid to install any new release. I would *really* recommend upgrading. There are some bugs in 2.0 that are fixed in 2.0.5, and now 2.1 is out. You can't pull the package, but you could pull the port off ok, if that existed. Or pull the source and recompile it for yourself. Mainly, the executable format changed slightly between 2.0 and 2.0.5 (there is a compat2x library). You have to recompile them. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major