Upgrading firefox 1.5 to 2.0

Alain G. Fabry alainfabry at belgacom.net
Mon Dec 24 06:57:32 PST 2007


On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 09:00:04AM -0500, Robe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using FreeBSD v6.2. It comes with FireFox 1.5 and I want to upgrade it
> to version 2.0.
> 
> I've updated my ports collection with pkg_version -v. But I don't see the
> FireFox 2.0 in my ports. However I see a port for FireFox 2 in the ports
> collection in the web site of FreeBSD. Isn't supposed that it must appear in
> my ports collection once I've updated it?
> 
> Then I try with portupgrade ?R firefox and I get the following message:
> 
> Stale dependency: firefox-1.5.0.8,1 --> perl-5.8.8_1 ? manually run 'pkgdb
> ?F' to fix (-0 disallowed when ?R is given).
> 
> Can someone help me?
> 

Look in man at following commands 

-> update your ports
portsnap fetch update
-> verify outdated installed ports
portversion -l "<"
-> upgrade port
portupgrade -R port
-> update your pkgdb with new dependancies
pkgdb -F

Hope this helps



> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Robe.
> 
> En el verdadero amor, el alma oculta al cuerpo.
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