Installing Opera 8

James S Blankenship dragoninterrupted at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 15:54:10 PDT 2005


Ah, nevermind, I got it.  Thank you for your help, I appreciate it very much!

Best regards,
James

On 10/14/05, James S Blankenship <dragoninterrupted at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, if you installed from disk, you got what was on the disk.  You
> > need to cvsup your ports collection, then install Opera from the port.
> >  If you aren't familiar with that, read Chapter 4 of the FreeBSD
> > handbook.  See
> >
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
> >
> > In short, you will probably end up doing something like:
> >
> > pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui
> > cvsup  -h cvsup.FreeBSD.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
> > cd /usr/ports/www/opera
> > make install && make clean
> >
>
>
> Thanks Bob.  Everything worked so far except for one error:
>
> If you really wish to overwrite the old port of www/opera
>       without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"
>       in your environment or the "make install" command line.
>
> I'm not certain of how to do either of those things.  How do I delete
> the old ver completely and/or ste the variable to force pkg register?
>
> ~James
>


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