Firefox

Chris Hodgins chodgins at cis.strath.ac.uk
Tue Feb 1 14:07:35 PST 2005


Nikolas Britton wrote:
> Alfredo Perez wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> I just updated my ports and installed Firefox. I have installed
>> Firefox version 0.9.3. How can I update it to version 1.0?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> PS: I am running FreeBSD 5.3
>>
>>  
>>
> Your post is a bit ambiguous. did you have 0.9.3 on your system and 
> wanted to upgrade to 1.0 or did you update your ports but it installed 
> 0.9.3?
> 
> What I would do:
> 
> my ports-sup file:
> 
> #*default host=cvsup14.us.FreeBSD.org
> *default host=cvsup12.us.FreeBSD.org
> #*default host=cvsup1.FreeBSD.org
> #*default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org
> *default base=/var/db
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=.
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> *default compress
> ports-all
> 
> -----------------------------
>  > su
> # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile
> (normally i'd just run pkg_version -v |grep "<" and if needed 
> portupgrade after cvsuping, if I was upgrading something like Gnome or 
> KDE i'd exit X)
> # cd /usr/ports/www/firefox
> # make deinstall
> # more M*
> # make WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=yes install clean
> # exit
>  > rehash
>  > firefox&
>  > exit
> 
> 
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Could his problem be that he has simply not fetched the index?

I normally do:

# cvsup -g -L2 /usr/ports-supfile
..
..
# cd /usr/ports
# make fetchindex
# portsdb -u

and then I would try reinstalling it using the method above.

Chris


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