Gamin and fam conflict...

David J Brooks daeg at houston.rr.com
Wed Apr 12 23:12:44 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 12 April 2006 17:43, Elod Kironsky wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to install Openoffice 2.0.2 from a binary package. I got,
> that some packages are missing, so I started to install them. I built
> the latest gamin port, but when I try to install it, I get a warning,
> that fam is already installed and gamin installs into the same
> directory. Now can I pkg_delete fam and install gamin safely? I see,
> that fam is needed by a bunch of KDE ports. Can I do that or at least
> install gamin over fam?

Deinstall fam and install gamin (or vice-versa, they are functionally the 
same.) Then run portsdb -Fu to update dependencies from fam to gamin. Read 
man 1 portsdb for more details.

David
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