Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:35:13 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems installing XFree86-4 Message-ID: <20021112213513.GH16105@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0211121247240.29520-200000@unix1.ic.ucsc.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0211121247240.29520-200000@unix1.ic.ucsc.edu>
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:54:12PM -0800, Ian J Peters-Campbell wrote:
> Unfortunately, the install for X-4 keeps failing, saying that things are
> already defined, etc (I have included a copy of the "make install" output
> for your perusal and edification). I thought that the problem might just
> be a previously installed X 3, and so tried to deinstall it first, but it
> failed as well.
Make sure you deinstall all of XFree86-3.3.x, particularly including
the imake-3.3.x port before you attempt to install XFree86-4.2.1. The
3.3.x imake is not suitable for compiling X 4.2.1, but it's sufficient
to fool the port Makefile into trying...
If you're using portupgrade(1), it's as simple as:
pkg_deinstall -r imake-\*
echo "XFREE86_VERSION=4" >> /etc/make.conf
portinstall -N x11/XFree86-4
Nb. that first command will remove *every* port/pkg that uses X:
you'ld want to re-install them anyhow after upgrading.
Cheers,
Matthew
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