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Recently installed FreeBSD 4.5, and selected the XFree option by mistake,
and it has installed X.

I wanted to install XFree 4.x instead of 3.x which is installed at the
moment.

Can I make deinstall it?

What's the best way to upgrade to XFree 4.x (it won't make because it keeps
whinging about files already being configured/installed)

Thanks

Nuking /usr/X11R6 (and possibly /etc/X11) should work.
(It's not a port, and probably not even a package. ISTR.
Caveat deletor, YMMV, slippery when wet, etc.)

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On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 10:45:08 +0000 (UTC)

J> Nuking /usr/X11R6 (and possibly /etc/X11) should work.
J> (It's not a port, and probably not even a package. ISTR.

        It is a port (or at least can be) and a package (at least an entry in
/var/db/pkg). Being a cautious individual I simply renamed /usr/X11R6 to
/usr/X11R6.336, backed up my /vsr/db/pkg directory and then deleted all
X11 package references. The idea being that I could easily go back to 3.3.6
- I never did and eventually I deleted all trace of 3.3.6.

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Alas, that depends.
It should be a package.  But on my current system, I did a clean
install and mistakenly installed everthing through sysinstall in
one shot.  This installed 3.3.6, but there was no sign of it in the
output of pkg_info.

I installed 4.1 on top of it, apparently with no ill effects.

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Yeah it did - I got bored last night, so I just moved the old X11R6
directory to a tmp location, and installed it.

It worked fine :)

Thanks for the feedback anyway :D

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 20:22:54 +0200,

But isn't. That was the point. :-)

Quote:> and a package (at least an entry in
> /var/db/pkg).

That makes it easier, just delete the package.  Wasn't sure it had
entries in /var/db/pkg. Haven't seen XF 3.* in a long time.

Quote:> Being a cautious individual I simply renamed /usr/X11R6 to
> /usr/X11R6.336, backed up my /vsr/db/pkg directory and then deleted all
> X11 package references. The idea being that I could easily go back to 3.3.6
> - I never did and eventually I deleted all trace of 3.3.6.

Keeping the X configuration files (although different from XF 4.*) might
be worthwhile. For a go-back excercise or just snarfing modelines[0].

[0] Had to do that for my thinkpad 570, snarfed a modeline from a
    tp 3xx XF config off of the 'net.

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On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 08:49:49 +0000 (UTC)

J> Keeping the X configuration files (although different from XF 4.*) might
J> be worthwhile. For a go-back excercise or just snarfing modelines[0].

        Yep, my 3.3.6 config is in /etc/XF86Config and my 4.2.0 is in
/etc/X11/XF86Config - the copy I actually made wasn't needed.

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