Subject: Re: Problem with pkg_add adding GIMP, xpm
To: Brad Colbert <bcolbert@clark.net>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/12/1998 08:21:51
On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Brad Colbert wrote:
> I found out what the problem was.  My X11R6 directory was a
>    symbolic link to another location.  For some reason pkg_add
>    doesn't like that.  Strange.  I fixed it all by mounting
>    the directory as a union.

Well, to repeat myself: upgrade your pkg_* tools be installing the
pkgtools/pkg_install pkg, which will handle symlinks fine.

Union-mounting's broken, as you'll have to learn soon, BTW.


>    However, I am still unable to unstall Gimp since it is
>    looking for the gtk+1.0.4 and all I am able to find is
>    the gtk+1.1.2 package.  Any ideas?

Recompile.


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>