From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 7 11:15:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.wvi.com (gateway.wvi.com [204.119.27.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97B6837B416 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:15:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (dsl-95.adweb.net [208.152.19.65]) by gateway.wvi.com (Postfix) with SMTP id D2A113C4BCA for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:15:07 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Phil Webb Reply-To: philwebb@piperain.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: deleting ports/packages Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:15:11 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20011207191507.D2A113C4BCA@gateway.wvi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, this is rather getting me down. I seem to be caught in "The Loop Of Death". Upon attempting to install Netscape 6.2 from ports apparently something broke. It seems to install correctly, but when I type netscape, system returns "you dont seem to have netscape installed". OK, how about "Netscape"? Nope. Netscape not found. Hmmmm... pkg-info shows linux-netscape-6.2_1 Linux Netscape Suite. Well then my next thought was to remove nestscape. Now I get three errors, Couldn't open dependency file /var/db/pkg/imake-4.1.0/+REQUIRED_BY and /var/db/pkg/freetype2-2.0.4/+REQUIRED_BY and /var/db/pkg/XFree86-libraries-4.1.0/+REQUIRED_BY All right then, if you're gonna be that way about it, I'll re-install, maybe that will add what it wants to delete and then I can clean it all up and try over. Install seems to go ok, but then it still won't start and I still can't remove. What am I doing wrong here? I can't run it because the system thinks its not installed (even after a FORCE_REGISTER) and I can't remove it either. Grrrrr. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you! -- Phil Webb http://www.piperain.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message