Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 15:01:19 -0400 From: John Pollock <johnpollock@bellsouth.net> To: Beat Gaetzi <beat@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Firefox3 - can't deinstall Message-ID: <1272740479.82725.11.camel@wasp.rarepenguin.org> In-Reply-To: <4BDC74BE.1030807@FreeBSD.org> References: <1272737668.82725.5.camel@wasp.rarepenguin.org> <201005011915.51646.bruce@cran.org.uk> <1272738520.82725.9.camel@wasp.rarepenguin.org> <4BDC74BE.1030807@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 20:36 +0200, Beat Gaetzi wrote: > 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 Good suggestion. Adding firefox35. ;-) Many thanks, JP > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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