* Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-23 20:44:39 -0500]:
> > now I seem to find myself in the FreeBSD equivalent of "DLL Hell".
> > Should I just blow my system away and start from scratch?
>
> Oh, goodness no-- almost anything that goes wrong with a system can be
> fixed without reinstallin
* Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-23 18:21:05 -0800]:
> Packages are built to work with the particular release specified. Once
> ports are unfrozen, right before release, they start changing again,
> and updating new packages for all ports for every minor version bump in
> the tree is
* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-23 23:06:25 -0500]:
> here is real good install guide.
> http://freebsd.packards-home.net/index.php
>
> It has section on ports and packages.
Cool, it seems like a fairly well written and mostly up to date site.
I'm surprised I hadn't stumbled onto it before. Thanks
* Bob Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-23 22:00:58 -0500]:
> On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:16 pm, N.J. Thomas wrote:
> > "pkg_add -r foo". This worked, but it went and downloaded older
> > versions of various programs (i.e. Mozilla Firefox 0.9).
>
> By default, pkg_add uses the packages that we
from FreeBSD DLL Hell!
I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE and was installing packages via
"pkg_add
-r foo". This worked, but it went and downloaded older versions of
various programs (i.e. Mozilla Firefox 0.9). How can I tell pkg_add
to
use the "5-latest" (5-STABLE? RELENG_5_3?)
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:16 pm, N.J. Thomas wrote:
> I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE and was installing packages via "pkg_add
> -r foo". This worked, but it went and downloaded older versions of
> various programs (i.e. Mozilla Firefox 0.9). How can I tell pkg_add to
> use the "5-latest" (5-ST
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 18:21, Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> You don't need to reinstall the OS, but it might be simpler for you
> if you deleted all the packages, with pkg_delete -a (from root). From
> there you can install cvsup and other essentials, but you might
> consider runn
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 17:16, "N.J. Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE and was installing packages via
> "pkg_add -r foo". This worked, but it went and downloaded older
> versions of various programs (i.e. Mozilla Firefox 0.9). How can I
> tell pkg_add to use t
N.J. Thomas wrote:
I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE and was installing packages via "pkg_add
-r foo". This worked, but it went and downloaded older versions of
various programs (i.e. Mozilla Firefox 0.9). How can I tell pkg_add to
use the "5-latest" (5-STABLE? RELENG_5_3?) branch? Do I have to updat
Hello,
You may want to try portupgrade to bring everything up to date.
Here is a link to a tutorial:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html
--Nick
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I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE and was installing packages via "pkg_add
-r foo". This worked, but it went and downloaded older versions of
various programs (i.e. Mozilla Firefox 0.9). How can I tell pkg_add to
use the "5-latest" (5-STABLE? RELENG_5_3?) branch? Do I have to update
my sources before
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