newbie ports question
Andrew P.
infofarmer at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 11:08:34 PDT 2005
On 10/13/05, makisupa <bsd.makisupa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I seem to be getting myself in trouble repeatedly...I'm sure someone can
> help...
>
> Fresh install of 6.0 RC1, gnome 2.12 from marcus's tb, freshly cvsupped
> ports. I need to install some little apps like gaim and pan. when
> running 'make install clean' for these ports i'll get a message that the
> correct version of port X is not installed. Problem is make says i need
> a newer version but the version numbers indicate i've got a newer
> version than what its looking for. Then a little part about
> 'FORCE_PACKAGE_REGISTER.' There is an example of this below this
> message. If i use this it will install the older version of the
> dependencies or at least register them. I say this on the last system
> that i hosed...2 copies of the same package would be registered. Not
> good. How should i *properly* install these ports? As in what's not
> going to get me in trouble?
>
>
> ===> Installing for glib-2.6.6
> ===> glib-2.6.6 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7 - found
> ===> glib-2.6.6 depends on executable: pkg-config - found
> ===> glib-2.6.6 depends on shared library: intl - found
> ===> Generating temporary packing list
> ===> Checking if devel/glib20 already installed
> ===> An older version of devel/glib20 is already installed
> (glib-2.8.3)
> You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again
> by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
> If you really wish to overwrite the old port of devel/glib20
> without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"
> in your environment or the "make install" command line.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/devel/glib20.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/accessibility/atk.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/gtkspell2.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/net/gaim.
>
>
> Thanks for the help. Loving my BSD laptop so far...just straightening
> some things out.
>
> /mak.
>
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I'd start with installing portupgrade, and trying to
portupgrade -arR. I'm sure there's another solution,
though.
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