xterm conflicts with xorg-clients

[Gerard Seibert]

On Monday, November 14, 2005 12:42:14 PM, Mike Hernandez <sequethin at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: xterm conflicts with xorg-clients
Wrote these words of wisdom:

> On  Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:22:08PM +0000, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> > Jeppe Larsen wrote:
> > 
> > >After running cvsup and portupgrade, I'm having some problems with xterm
> > >and some other programs.
> > >Portupgrade failed because of the following:
> > >
> > >===>  xterm-206_1 conflicts with installed package(s): 
> > >     xorg-clients-6.8.2
> > >
> > >     They install files into the same place.
> > >     Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1).
> > >*** Error code 1
> > >
> > Don't delete any of those dependencies!  If you do then you will 
> > probably have to re-install those packages to get the dependencies back.
> >
> 
> Great. I just had the same problem and I deleted the dependencies ;)
> This is fun.  If I had only waited 10 minutes...
> 
> I hope I didn't break anything beyond repair.....
> 
> Mike


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On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied:

If all else fails, update your ports tree and install portmanager
(sysutils/portmanager). I would then recommend cleaning out your
/usr/ports/distfiles directory and possible running portsclean -C -D -DD
-L -P -PP which will pretty much clean out every conceivable bit of
extraneous garbage on your system. Then run portmanager -u -f -l. It
will take awhile, but it should properly rebuild everything on your
system.

Good Luck!

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Gerard Seibert
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