pkg_add question

[Andrew P.]

On 1/5/06, László Nagy <nagylzs at freemail.hu> wrote:
>
>   Hello All,
>
> I tried to install the Xorg server and xfce4 from the binary
> distribution, using
>
> pkg_add -r
>
> I could setup the Xorg server, but I cannot use xfce. When I run
>
> startxfce4
>
> then I get the following message:
>
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libobject-2.0.so.0" not found,
> required by "xfce4-sesion".
>
> I read somewhere that I need to update glib. But I cannot do this with
> pkg_add.
>
> pkg_add -r glib
>
> tells me that glib (or an older version of it) is already installed. Now
> I'm trying to upgrade glib with
>
> portupgrade -r glib
>
> and probably it will work. But it will take a long time to recompile
> every package that I have in binary format. The big advantage of using
> pkg_add is that I do not need to recompile everything from the ports
> tree. I have a slow machine and limited disk space. But it looks like I
> have no choice. Upgrading glib from the ports will cause many packages
> to be downloaded and recompiled from source. I could not find any way to
> update my packages in binary form. If there is a way, please help me
> finding it.
>
> Thanks,
>
>    Les
>
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"portupgrade -PP" will only use binary packages. Try
portupagrade -aPP