Startx Missing Following Portupgrade

Robert H. Perry rperry at gti.net
Sun Nov 20 08:54:18 GMT 2005


David Armour wrote:
> hello rob,
> 
> ....from /usr/ports/UPDATING:
> 20051113:
>   AFFECTS: users of x11/xterm, x11/xorg-clients, x11/XFree86-4-clients
>   AUTHOR: x11 at FreeBSD.org
> 
>   Xterm no longer installs with '-static' prefix. Users should upgrade
>   XFree86-clients to 4.5.0_1 or xorg-clients to 6.8.2_1 or newer before
>   attempting upgrade of xterm to 206_1 or newer. Previous versions 
> remove xterm on deinstall so CONFLICTS have been set accordingly.
> 
> i only discovered this myself recently. hth.
> 
> 
Thanks David,

I read the warning in UPDATING.  My problem was performing the upgrade 
while half asleep.  I paid a price during the GNOME upgrade as well.

Thanks again for taking the time to respond.
Bob Perry


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