[gobolinux-users] Updating Xorg

[Tom Connell]

Jonas Karlsson wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:55:44 +0200, Tom Connell  
> <Gobolinux at tjconnell.co.uk> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had installed Xorg 7.2 to my system, but it had not been symlinked for
>> some reason!
>>
>> Following this I was advised just to symlink it, but I got a large
>> swathe of conflict messages and the thought has just occured to me
>> should I have done this from a Konsole window in KDE or should I have
>> shutdown x and done it from a base console?
>>
>> Have I introduced another set of problems by doing this?
>>
>>     
> No, conflicts come from that the links SymlinkProgram is trying to create  
> in /System/Links already exist, but point to another program, not the one  
> you are trying to symlink now. So it's just warnings that the command  
> couldn't complete, but nothing fatal to the system. My guess it that  
> LibDRM was one of the conflicts, Imake could be one of the others. Could  
> you tell if there were any other conflicts?
> By default SymlinkProgram only gives a warning about such conflicts but  
> leave the links as they were. If you want to override this behaviour and  
> force the symlinks to point to the applicaction you are trying to symlink  
> now, add '--force' (without quotes) to the symlink command.
>
>   
>> I did terminate my x session and start a new one once the symlink was
>> done, but I have not yet rebooted the system! Is this also a requirement
>> for Xorg?
>>     
> No, it's sufficient to just restart X.
>
>   
OK Thanks!

Tom