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Omega21
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 Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 4:34 am Post subject: Im still on Xfree86. Im having issues converting. HELP! |
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Im on XFree86 4.3.8 or something, and I really want Xorg.
Because you guys in portage merged XFree and XOrg,
I would just really need to update Xorg-x11  . The only problem
is when I attempt so, Mozilla FireFox and Thunderbird are blocking the
mandatory freetype package. What can I do??
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Gherald
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 4:35 am Post subject: |
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| unemerge them; emerge xorg-x11; re-emerge them |
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Omega21
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 4:42 am Post subject: |
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| Gherald wrote: | | unemerge them; emerge xorg-x11; re-emerge them |
Is that the only way? I have so much custom stuff on Firefox and all of my emails arre archived in ThunderBird...
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Gherald
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 4:44 am Post subject: |
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| Omega21 wrote: | | Gherald wrote: | | unemerge them; emerge xorg-x11; re-emerge them |
Is that the only way? I have so much custom stuff on Firefox and all of my emails arre archived in ThunderBird... |
You won't loose anything from /home or /var (which is where emails and other settings are stored) |
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Omega21
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 4:58 am Post subject: |
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| Gherald wrote: | | Omega21 wrote: | | Gherald wrote: | | unemerge them; emerge xorg-x11; re-emerge them |
Is that the only way? I have so much custom stuff on Firefox and all of my emails arre archived in ThunderBird... |
You won't loose anything from /home or /var (which is where emails and other settings are stored) |
Ok, but how do I restore these settings after emerging it again? Or do I have to?
Keep in mind I need to be root to emerge something, and the usual email is all in
my regular user. Will that make any difference?
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DecayCell
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| You will not notice any difference, all your old settings and data will be kept. Portage only deals with the system-wide executables, not the user settings. |
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