Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
you may want to look up this section of the handbook: Chapter 5 Installing Applications: Packages and Ports How to upgrade your applications is explained there; long story short, there are three utilities i know of that may be used to keep your applications up-to-date irrespective of the

Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Allen
On 12/20/2011 4:19 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: you may want to look up this section of the handbook: Chapter 5 Installing Applications: Packages and Ports How to upgrade your applications is explained there; I actually am doing so right now. I started cleaning out the CPU cooling system on

Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Allen unix.hac...@comcast.net wrote: On 12/20/2011 4:19 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: you may want to look up this section of the handbook: Chapter 5 Installing Applications: Packages and Ports How to upgrade your applications is explained there; I

Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Allen
On 12/20/2011 6:16 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: *SNIP* about FVWM2 not working on your other FreeBSD install... i'm not sure how you set up your X11 system and your window manager, but this section of the handbook, Chapter 6 The X Window System, has instructions for setting up a desktop

Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:19:04 -0500, Allen wrote: Hi, I've been trying to find info about this, so I'm Hoping someone here will know about this; I use FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, and basically, the normal way I do things, is like this: I grab the CD, boot, and install the Base System. Once I've

Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Allen
On 12/20/2011 12:20 PM, Polytropon wrote: *SNIP* I snipped out a bunch of this so that whoever reads this next doesn't have to go through all of that text all at once, but I REALLY wanted to get a chance to say this: THANK YOU! Danke schoen sehr sehr sehr!!! In all my years, I've only heard a

Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 07:19 20/12/2011, you wrote: Hi, I've been trying to find info about this, so I'm Hoping someone here will know about this; I use FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, and basically, the normal way I do things, is like this: I grab the CD, boot, and install the Base System. Once I've booted, I'll then use

Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-19 Thread Allen
Hi, I've been trying to find info about this, so I'm Hoping someone here will know about this; I use FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, and basically, the normal way I do things, is like this: I grab the CD, boot, and install the Base System. Once I've booted, I'll then use one of the two: pkg_add -r bunch