--On Thursday, November 01, 2007 09:50:57 +0100 Erik Trulsson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:02:42PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On October 31, 2007 12:43:48 PM -0400 John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I hope this is an appropriate list for this type of question; please let
me know if another list is more suitable to newbie-type quesions.
I've been using Linux for a long time, and every year or so I have a
crack at *BSD to see what I'm missing. But it never works out.
So, trying again...
I think I want to start with FreeBSD 6.2 with Xorg upgraded to 7.3. I
tried to accomplish this over the course of several installs. In the
end, I decided this should work:
a) install 6.2, plain User setup (NOT with Xorg, and NOT with ports)
b) portsnap fetch
c) portsnap extract
d) cd to /usr/ports/x11/xorg and make install clean
When I do pkg_version -v, it SEEMS to have installed the xorg that I
want.
Is this the right procedure to start with?
Yes, with one caveat. You need to run mergebase.sh or manually create
the symlink for /usr/X11R6. /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/mergebase.sh
No, that is not necessary if he installs everything from scratch.
It was when we did it here. How else would the symlink get created? In
fact, xorg-libraries refused to install until we ran mergebase.sh. This
was a pristine 6.2 RELEASE install without xorg, followed by a cvsup and
the make install clean in the xorg meta port.
--
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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