pkg_add question

[László Nagy]

Andrew P. wrote:

>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
>  
>
Whew! :-) You are my man!
I'm going to use portupgrade instead of pkg_add, from this point. :-)
Thank you!

   Les