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Date:      Sat, 01 May 2010 20:36:46 +0200
From:      Beat Gaetzi <beat@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Pollock <johnpollock@bellsouth.net>
Cc:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox3 - can't deinstall
Message-ID:  <4BDC74BE.1030807@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1272738520.82725.9.camel@wasp.rarepenguin.org>
References:  <1272737668.82725.5.camel@wasp.rarepenguin.org>	<201005011915.51646.bruce@cran.org.uk> <1272738520.82725.9.camel@wasp.rarepenguin.org>

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John Pollock wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 19:15 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
>> On Saturday 01 May 2010 19:14:28 John Pollock wrote:
>>
>>> When I cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3 then run make deinstall, I get a error
>>> message that port is not installed.
>> You should use pkg_delete instead: running "make deinstall" could fail if the 
>> port has been updated since installing it.
>>
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> pkg_delete firefox\*
> 
> The above command worked great, wasn't sure the version number installed
> but the wildcard worked great, now am utilizing: pkg_add -r firefox3 to
> get the latest package of firefox3.

Please consider using www/firefox or www/firefox35 instead of firefox3
as Firefox 3.0 is deprecated and will be removed from ports tree soon.

Beat



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