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Clear up the keeping-up-to-date section a bit... simplify explanations

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and make examples a little more fool-tolerant.
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Adam Weinberger 2004-01-08 06:42:12 +00:00
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<p><b>How do I keep my GNOME &gnomever; components and applications <p><b>How do I keep my GNOME &gnomever; components and applications
up-to-date?</b></p> up-to-date?</b></p>
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<p>I find that <tt>/usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade</tt> works really <p>You are emphatically encouraged to use <tt>portupgrade</tt> --
well. For example:</p> and <em>only</em> <tt>portupgrade</tt> -- to keep your GNOME
&gnomever; components and applications up-to-date.</p>
<tt># portupgrade -r pkgconfig</tt> <p>Once you have updated your ports tree (presumably with
<tt>cvsup</tt>), the following two simple commands will update
what needs to be updated, and will prevent inconsistencies:</p>
<p>This will upgrade pkgconfig and every other port that depends <pre>
on it (that needs updating).</p> # pkgdb -F
# portupgrade -a
</pre>
<p>However, sometimes so much changes that it becomes <p>Despite consistent utilization of <tt>portupgrade</tt>, if
necessary to do a little housekeeping first. In that case, this it seems like everything is refusing to build with everything
usually works:</p> else, you might save yourself a headache or three by removing
all your GNOME apps and reinstalling them (your data files will
remain untouched). To do this, follow these commands:</p>
<pre> <pre>
# pkgdb -F
# pkg_delete -rf pkgconfig\* # pkg_delete -rf pkgconfig\*
# cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 # cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2
# make clean # make clean
# make install clean # make install clean
</pre> </pre>
<p>These steps will remove <b>all</b> the GNOME 1 and 2 components <p>After running the above commands, you will have to reinstall all
and applications from your machine, but only reinstalls the the GNOME applications you desire. This process sounds painful,
GNOME 2 desktop. You should be aware, that if it comes to but it is actually a great way to clear cruft off of your system.
this, you will need to reinstall your applications after Just install applications as you need them, and you'll be surprised
reinstalling the desktop. Fortunately, this extreme measure how much disk space you have reclaimed. A full rebuild does take
is only rarely needed. a significant amount of time; fortunately, this measure is only
</p> rarely needed.</p>
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