On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:36:51PM +0000, oinkfreebiker@att.net wrote:
> 
> Two questions on upgrading a pre-built binary package...
> 
> QUESTION #1.
> 
> I assume that since the KDE 2.1 binaries are available, I 
> don't have to wait for NetBSD 1.5.1 before upgrading to 
> KDE 2.1. Is this a correct assumption?

Yes, this should work under 1.5 too

> 
> 
> QUESTION #2
> 
> The NetBSD guide says to use pkg_delete to remove a 
> package prior to upgrading it. It gives the example:
> 
> **********************
> 
> # pkg_delete -r jpeg
> 
> will remove jpeg and all the packages that used it; this 
> allows upgrading the jpeg package.
> 
> **********************
> 
> I want to upgrade from KDE 1.2.1 to KDE 2.1 so as to have 
> Konqueror with CSS. 
> 
> But know that I had to manually install one heck of a lot 
> of stuff to get KDE 1.2.1 going. I was working from the 
> Wasabi four-CD set. A simple pkg_add of the KDE tgz did 
> not work. All the dependencies failed because they 
> weren't in the directory where the script went to look 
> for them. 

In what directory did you do this ? pkg_add should be able to find the
dependancy by itself (at last it does if you to the pkg_add in the 'All'
directory).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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