After much time and effort, I have a working FBSD 4.9 system with everything I need for a working desktop system. However, after much research I decided I want to install KDE 3.2.2. My options are upgrade KDE or reinstall my whole system. I do not wish to do the latter. I found some instructions on upgrading KDE on the freebsd.kde.org website. However, the two options given are use portupgrade to upgrade (as far as I can tell this command is only in FBSD 5.1 and I have 4.9) or uninstall KDE and reinstall. I updated my ports using CVSup and tried to do a make install clean however it tried to install 3.1.4. I am assuming I simply upgraded myself back to the same stuff that I installed during the installation of FBSD. Second is to uninstall KDE and then do a ?make install clean?. Again, I will still only get to 3.1.4 as far as I can tell that is what is in my /usr/ports/x11/kde3 directory. I have located and downloaded a 3.2.2 tarball (is this a package file? The site says something about a package site. Can anyone clear up what that is and where I am supposed to stick that url in) from rabarber.fruitsalad.org but have no clue where to go from here. My questions here are a few parts. One by looking at my CVSup file bellow can you tell me what the heck I did? Are my ports, src, docs and what ever that third option is up to date or are they only up to 4.9 ports, src, docs, and cvsroot-all (what is cvsroot-all) <snip> *default host=cvsup5.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr/ports *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix # If your network link is a T1 or faster, comment out the following line. *default compress ## Main Source Tree. # # The easiest way to get the main source tree is to use the "src-all" # mega-collection. It includes all of the individual "src-*" collections. src-all <snip> ## Ports Collection. # # The easiest way to get the ports tree is to use the "ports-all" # mega-collection. It includes all of the individual "ports-*" # collections, ports-all <snip> ## Documentation # # The easiest way to get the doc tree is to use the "doc-all" # mega-collection. It includes all of the individual "doc-*" # collections, doc-all <snip> ## CVSROOT control files # # This is to get the control files that cvs(1) needs and the commit logs. cvsroot-all <snip> Two can I use CVSup to update my system to KDE 3.2.2 or update my system and run a pkg_add or something. Last but not lease if I just have to remove KDE and reinstall. HOW? I do not know how to remove KDE. I have tried pkg_delete but must in the wrong directory when running the pkg_delete command. I have read the handbook and that did not help. I googled with no decent results. The handbook has helped in the past but not here. Thank you, Joshua Lewis
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 03:11:49PM -0700, Joshua Lewis wrote:> After much time and effort, I have a working FBSD 4.9 system with > everything I need for a working desktop system. However, after much > research I decided I want to install KDE 3.2.2. My options are upgrade KDE > or reinstall my whole system. I do not wish to do the latter. > > I found some instructions on upgrading KDE on the freebsd.kde.org website. > However, the two options given are use portupgrade to upgrade (as far as I > can tell this command is only in FBSD 5.1 and I have 4.9) or uninstall KDE > and reinstall. I updated my ports using CVSup and tried to do a make > install clean however it tried to install 3.1.4. I am assuming I simply > upgraded myself back to the same stuff that I installed during the > installation of FBSD. Second is to uninstall KDE and then do a ?make > install clean?. Again, I will still only get to 3.1.4 as far as I can tell > that is what is in my /usr/ports/x11/kde3 directory.sysutils/portupgrade is a port. -- Brooks -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20040527/0cab37ea/attachment.bin
On Friday 28 May 2004 00:11, Joshua Lewis wrote:> I found some instructions on upgrading KDE on the freebsd.kde.org website. > However, the two options given are use portupgrade to upgrade (as far as I > can tell this command is only in FBSD 5.1 and I have 4.9)Portupgrade is a port. It lives in sysutils/portsupgrade.> or uninstall KDE > and reinstall. I updated my ports using CVSup and tried to do a make > install clean however it tried to install 3.1.4. I am assuming I simply > upgraded myself back to the same stuff that I installed during the > installation of FBSD.There is an example supfile suitable for upgrading ports in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile. All you need to do is change the line specifying the cvsup-server. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: signature Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20040528/72ed7ead/attachment.bin
On Thu, 27 May 2004 15:11:49 -0700 (PDT) "Joshua Lewis" <jmlewis@dslextreme.com> wrote:>After much time and effort, I have a working FBSD 4.9 system with >everything I need for a working desktop system. However, after much >research I decided I want to install KDE 3.2.2. My options are upgrade >KDE or reinstall my whole system. I do not wish to do the latter.I found that the "ports" version of KDE was behind, but the "package" was up to date. So I went with deleting KDE and re-adding as a package. After asking a few questions, I was also advised to use a specific server, so I did the following: setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://rabarber.fruitsalad.org/packages/3.2.1-ports-test11/4-STABLE/Latest (export PACKAGESITE=ftp://rabarber.fruitsalad.org/packages/3.2.1-ports-test11/4-S TABLE/Latest if you're using sh/bash/zsh) and do pkg_add -r kde. Before you do that though, make sure to deinstall any previously installed packages/ports of KDE, arts and qt: pkg_delete -f quanta\* kdevelop\* kde\* arts\* qt\* I seem to recall I had to fiddle with the environment in order for it to reach the FTP site, but nothing that wasn't in the 'man' The version available today will be higher than this, as I was tinkering back in mid-March. By using the packages, I was able to delete and upgrade KDE in a matter of minutes. Good luck! -gerry
On Friday 28 May 2004 15:04, Gerry Freymann wrote:> I found that the "ports" version of KDE was behind, but the "package" was > up to date. So I went with deleting KDE and re-adding as a package.The packages are built from ports, so there is no way a port can be "behind" a package. You just need to update your ports-collection with cvsup.> After asking a few questions, I was also advised to use a specific > server, so I did the following: > > setenv PACKAGESITE > ftp://rabarber.fruitsalad.org/packages/3.2.1-ports-test11/4-STABLE/LatestThose packages on the other hand are seriously outdated. Please do NOT use them. The latest available packages built by us are listed on http://rabarber.fruitsalad.org. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: signature Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20040528/cd43ce1d/attachment.bin