greetings from FreeBSD DLL Hell!

N.J. Thomas njt at ayvali.org
Thu Mar 24 19:02:02 PST 2005


* Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> [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 reinstalling.  The key is to solve the problem the right
> way. :-)

Thanks for the tip! I almost blew my system away before I saw your
email. The solution in this case was to delete all the packages (there
were only a few that I had installed anyways), update the ports tree,
and then start installing from there.

Thomas

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N.J. Thomas
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