Update a package

GESBBB gesbbb at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 26 08:10:25 PST 2008


> From: Gary Hartl <ghartl at gmail.com>
> 
> Hi all;
> 
> Ok uber noob question here.
> 
> I have gettext-0.14.5 installed from the package tree, I want to update to
> gettext-0.17_1 
> 
> Is there a ways to do that with the pkg_add or some other command?
> 
> I google'ed it and only found ways to update local ports sources...(which
> means I either suck at google or fbsd or both)
> 
> Thanks for understanding my noobness.
> 
> Gary

Personally, I would just insure that my ports tree was up-to-date and then use either 'portmanager' or 'portupgrade' to handle the chore. My preference is for 'portmanager'.

-- 
Jerry



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