From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 26 20:17:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1657A37B417 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 20:17:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 58138 invoked by uid 100); 27 Dec 2001 04:17:27 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15402.41175.27398.144829@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 22:17:27 -0600 To: leegold Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packages for Fbsd 5.0 not installing on Fbsd4.4 In-Reply-To: <80227292@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.42/Python 2.1.1 (freebsd4) From: "Mike Meyer" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG leegold types: > I have FreeBSd 4.4 installed. I have a disk fro %.0 > (all this is from the book: "FreeBSd Unleashed". > I tried installing Window managers from the 5.0 disk > and they install but do not work. Yes, they don't work. You can't do that. 5.0 software must be run on a 5.0 system. > Does Sio5 (or SIO5) library ring a bell? I get a error > message refering to this when I try to run a WM installed > from the 5.0 disk. No, but I don't have a 5.0 system to look at. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message