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Date:      Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:24:05 -0800
From:      Mark Edwards <mark@antsclimbtree.com>
To:        "Scott A. Moberly" <smoberly@karamazov.org>
Cc:        <marcus@marcuscom.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Gnome 2 on FreeBSD 4.7p3 -- multiple issues
Message-ID:  <87F49C2F-3E0F-11D7-B2B3-0005025E566F@antsclimbtree.com>
In-Reply-To: <19389.65.221.169.187.1045001981.squirrel@mail.karamazov.org>

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On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 02:19 PM, Scott A. Moberly wrote:

>>> I'm beginning to suspect my XFree86 install is toast.  My man pages
>>> say  3.3.6.  I think I had 3.3.6 installed from the original FreeBSD
>>> 4.3 or  something like that, and somehow didn't fully remove it.  When
>>> I do
>>>
>>> cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86
>>> sudo make deinstall
>>>
>>> it says the port isn't installed.  However, I don't have XFree86-4
>>> installed either, and my XFree86 man pages say 3.3.6, so clearly 3.3.6
>>>  didn't get deinstalled and is still half-working.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to say, "deinstall the files that would be installed if
>>>  this port was installed?"
>>
>> Not that I know of.  Perhaps portupgrade and friends have this
>> capability.
>>
>>>   Or, would it be best to install
>>> /usr/ports/x11/XFree86, and then deinstall it?
>>
>> This would do it, but you might be able to get away with just 
>> installing
>> XFree86-4 over top your existing X disaster.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure if I can get 3.3.6 totally gone, and then install
>>> /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4, I'm going to be set.  Sorry to be bringing
>>> such a fubar'd system to you!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mark Edwards
>>> Engineer
>>> Mr. Toad's
>>> San Francisco, CA
>> --
>> PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
>
> My two cents in here real quick, what does:
>
> pkg_info | fgrep XFree86
>
> give?

 > pkg_info | fgrep XFree86
XFree86-libraries-4.2.1_6 XFree86-4 include/(shared) library kit
imake-4.2.0_1       Imake and other utilities from XFree86

--
Mark Edwards
Engineer
Mr. Toad's
San Francisco, CA


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