Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:21:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Various package/ports problems Message-ID: <20060828161718.P67591@scorpio.seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20060828200137.26950.qmail@web53415.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060828200137.26950.qmail@web53415.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > I inherited a FreeBSD 4.8 box that had a lot of out of date ports on it. in > trying to fix some of this, i seem to have screwed up the package or > ports system in a way i cant manage to fix. > > For example if i try to run "portversion" i get: > > undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass > /usr/local/sbin/portversion:239: [BUG] Bus Error > > from Ruby (ruby 1.8.5 is up to date on the system). > > If i try to run "pkg_info" I quickly get: > > pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts apache+ipv6-1.*' > > (i googled for similar problems and there were a few other reports > of this, with other packages, but no suggestion of how to fix them.) > > If i try to rebuild my ports index, I get > > gnopernicus-0.12.0: "/usr/ports/accessibility/gnome-speech" non-existent -- > dependency list incomplete" > > and nothing will go further. > > How can i get all of this sorted? i was really hoping to be able to update > most of this sytem but now i cant even get started to find out what needs it :-( > > Jen That is really quite an old version of FSBD. If possible, I think you would be well served by updating to the latest version - 6.1 - if possible. I may be wrong, but I do not believe that there is a lot of support for that version anymore. -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net Has anyone ever tasted an "end"? Are they really bitter?
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