You can run the cdrom again and choose "upgrade".  That won't kill off 
your config choices.

Or, you could download the tarballs, and untar them with the options 
'-xzpf'.  The -p is *very* important, that means to keep permissions, as 
some things are setuid, or chown'ed to a certain somebody.



On 2007 Jul 25 (Wed) at 10:00:31 -0400 (-0400), Frank Bax wrote:
:I'm trying to install qemu on OpenBSD 4.1 system; but I did not install X.
:
:Even though I plan to use the -vnc option exclusively (a remote system); I 
:wonder if I still need to install X even though I won't actually use 
:it?  Is this true?  If I do need to install X, is the easiest why to simply 
:run the install from cdrom again, selecting the x*.tgz filesets and say yes 
:to appropriate prompt?
:
:$ ls -l
:-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2550622 Mar 12 00:57 qemu-0.8.2p4.tgz
:-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   466303 Mar 12 00:57 sdl-1.2.9p2-sun.tgz
:
:$ sudo pkg_add qemu-0.8.2p4.tgz
:Can't install sdl-1.2.9p2-sun: lib not found X11.9.0
:Even by looking in the dependency tree:
:
:Maybe it's in a dependent package, but not tagged with @lib ?
:(check with pkg_info -K -L)
:If you are still running 3.6 packages, update them.
:Can't install sdl-1.2.9p2-sun: lib not found Xext.9.0
:Can't install qemu-0.8.2p4.tgz: can't resolve sdl-1.2.9p2-sun
:
:$ dmesg | head
:OpenBSD 4.1 (GENERIC) #1435: Sat Mar 10 19:07:45 MST 2007
:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
:cpu0: Intel Pentium III ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1 GHz
:cpu0: 
:FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE
:real mem  = 1073233920 (1048080K)
:avail mem = 971890688 (949112K)
:using 4278 buffers containing 53784576 bytes (52524K) of memory
:mainbus0 (root)
:bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 10/24/01, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf0b20, 
:SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xf29d0 (48 entries)
:bios0: ASUSTeK Computer INC. TUV4X
:


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