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Date:      Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:21:53 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: upgrading xfce4 fails
Message-ID:  <20070127091529.N78036@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <17851.12188.9550.411936@yeti.mininet>
References:  <17851.12188.9550.411936@yeti.mininet>

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On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> I'm having a hard time upgrading xfce4 on a FreeBSD 6.1 box. I've
> tried portupgrade first, but as it bumped into a boatload of errors I
> eventually had to resort to upgrade individual packages. This left me
> with a mix of packages of xfce versions 4.2 and 4.4, and a build
> failure in xfce4-mcs-manager which I'm unable to resolve:
>
> /usr/local/lib/libxfcegui4.so: undefined reference to `xfce_desktop_entry_has_translated_entry'

Saw that, or something like it.

> All non-xfce4 packages which the xfce4 packages depend upon appear to
> have upgraded ok (or so portupgrade says).
>
> Is there anything I can do except waiting for prebuilt packages?

pkg_delete or make deinstall everything xfce\* and libxfce\*, then just 
install /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4.  From what I've seen so far, xfce4.4 is 
definitely worth it.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA



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