Update a package

Proskurin Kirill k.proskurin at fxclub.org
Wed Nov 26 08:22:23 PST 2008


Gary Hartl wrote:
> 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.


#portsnap fetch extract

or if you allready have a ports tree just:

#portsnap fetch update

#cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade
#make install clean
#rehash

# portupgrade -Rf gettext

And man portupgrade of course. :-)

-- 
Best regards,
Proskurin Kirill


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