On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:13:48PM +0100, Georges Heinesch wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have Eterm 0.8.9 installed
> I would like to upgrade to 0.8.10.
> 
> Should this be done preferentially on the console (as opposed to
> Eterm) to avoid "interference" between presently running parts of
> Eterm (0.8.9) and the updating Eterm (0.8.10)?
> 
> TIA
> 
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What I did was to:

"make" under Eterm 0.8.9, in a screen session.
detach the screen.
exit from the Eterm, and bring up an xterm
cd pkgsrc/x11/eterm; make update
kill the xterm
fire up Eterm, and resume the screen session

Regards,
Alistair