Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:12:04 -0600 From: John <john@starfire.mn.org> To: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Out of the frying pan... Message-ID: <20050114141204.A10926@starfire.mn.org> In-Reply-To: <200501141332.03416.algould@datawok.com>; from algould@datawok.com on Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:32:03PM -0600 References: <20050113152405.A5302@starfire.mn.org> <41E7FF18.1000900@gmx.net> <20050114122320.A10349@starfire.mn.org> <200501141332.03416.algould@datawok.com>
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:32:03PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Friday 14 January 2005 12:23 pm, John wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:19:20PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > >3. Definitely go with a clean installation of FreeBSD 5.3 rather > > > > than 5.2.1. > > > > > > Just a sidenote, I did a source upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.3, which > > > basically worked okay. > > > Switching from XFree to X.org was really troublesome, on the other > > > hand... > > > > Yes, I would say that the source upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.3-STABLE was > > fine, it was the xorg/XFree86 and kde issues that made me insane. > > It's possible that I should have just done a pkg_delete -a and > > started over with the packages from that point, but I also need to > > learn to use pkg_upgrade. I would not hesitate to do the source > > upgrade again for a system which is NOT running X. > > > > I have now reinstalled 5.3, just to get around the Xorg->XFree86 > > issue, and I have kde installed, and I have room to spare. So, > > I'm much farther than I was when I ran out of room, and I still > > have room. This is a good thing! > > Yes it is! (...and speaking as someone who is typing with 2 fractured > wrists, all good news is welcome!) Oh, no! I'd ask what happened, but I'll wait until you're healed up... > I hope you have lots of fun and joy with your system before the next > challenge (which we will gladly participate in) ! OK, well, it seems I spoke just a little bit too soon. Or, maybe I'm OK, but just worried. I downloaded and burned an ISO 5.3 CD. I did a minimal install, NFS mounted all the 5-stable packages I kept from the last time around (I'm not a COMPLETE idiot!) and simply did a "pkg_add kde-lite*". That got me a long, long ways. I also needed to do a "pkg_add xorg-server*" but I think nearly everything else got loaded up. I was in great shape in terms of disk footprint and everything else I can tell from here. Now, at this point, I'm running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, but I've installed packages from FreeBSD 5-STABLE, but if my understanding is correct, that should be OK. This is the point at which things got interesting. I did the pkg_add for OOo - and found that I was missing four dependent packages. As luck would have it, all four of them have been updated since I started this process, so I downloaded and installed the newer revv'ed ones, but I got an error message that something (I wished I'd trapped the output) wanted libm.so.2. When I look around, I find that I have libm.so.3. The four packages were atk, pango, shared-mime-info, and gtk-2. I think one of the post-install scripts complained that it couldn't run something, Am I preparing trouble, or am I OK? Despite the warning, everything seems to be installing. Obviously, I wasn't able to install the newer packages as dependencies, but after installing them by hand, the things on which they depended seem to be installing OK, though with warnings. Anyway, I have everything installed, (except maybe a JDK - any suggestions?) and I'm at 80% in my combined root /usr partition, which feels a little tighter than I would like, but I do still have 270Mb free, so that's not too bad - that's larger than my first FreeBSD hard drive! :) OO just finished. Other than 16 packages that are newer than expected, it seems to have installed. I'm not actually with the machine, so I can't start X and kde and try it. Am I OK, or should I start over and redo something? -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG
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