From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 22 00:27:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ADBA37B401 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:27:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out006.verizon.net (out006pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A43A443FA3 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:27:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ej.cerejo@laposte.net) Received: from laposte.net ([141.150.115.173]) by out006.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030422072746.EDWK25800.out006.verizon.net@laposte.net>; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 02:27:46 -0500 Message-ID: <3EA4EEF1.4000106@laposte.net> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 03:27:45 -0400 From: "E. J. Cerejo" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Jansen References: <20030422062735.15800.qmail@web40109.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out006.verizon.net from [141.150.115.173] at Tue, 22 Apr 2003 02:27:45 -0500 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updating KDE via packges - how? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 07:27:48 -0000 Before you start using portupgrade you should do a few things explained here: http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/1385 If you installed kde through ports or with with pkg_add/sysinstall they should be registere in /var/db/pkg Paul Jansen wrote: > Hello, > as the subject indicates I'm wanitng to do an upgrade > of my KDE install (on freebsd 4.8). I've done a bit > of looking around google groups and the mailing list > archives but can't see anything definite as to how to > go about this. I installed the 'portupgrade' port but > ran into some difficulties. Portupgrade was saying > that it couldn't find my already installed package > (can't remember exact message). > WHat I'm hoping to do is download the required > packages from fruitsalad.org and burn them to CD. I'd > like to be able to take that home and do an upgrade > from there on a few machines. > Can someone step me through what would be required? > > Thanks, > PJ > > > http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile > - Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >