Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:35:45 +0200 From: "(-K JohnNy" <johnny64@swissjabber.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: package info is corrupt Message-ID: <20080923163545.GA77659@georg.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <276661.7047.qm@web51101.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <48D7F818.6030409@FreeBSD.org> <276661.7047.qm@web51101.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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--CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > What now? I tried to deinstall one of them, but no luck: >=20 > [root@zouk /var/db/pkg/gtkmm-2.12.7]# pkg_deinstall gtkmm > ** No matching package found. >=20 > [root@zouk /var/db/pkg/gtkmm-2.12.7]# cat +COMMENT=20 > C++ wrapper for Gtk+, Pango, Atk >=20 > [root@zouk /var/db/pkg/gtkmm-2.12.7]# cat +DESC=20 > C++ wrapper for Gtk+, Pango and Atk. >=20 > WWW: http://gtkmm.sourceforge.net/ > [root@zouk /var/db/pkg/gtkmm-2.12.7]#=20 To deinstall a package, you have to pass the whole package name with the version string included to pkg_delete or pkg_deinstall, or you have the option to use a wildcard, e. g. pkg_deinstall gtkmm-2.12.7 pkg_deinstall gtkmm\* But I'd recommend the first possibility over the second one since the second one would also deinstall any other versions possibly present on your system, which is possible since your installed packages are somehow corrupt. --=20 (-K JohnNy alias Partial Derivative =E2=88=82 [home] http://johnny64.fixinko.sk/ [icq] 338328204 [abandoned] [jabber] JohnNy64@swissjabber.org [skype] JohnNy64-konik [abandoned] --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkjZGuAACgkQ11l9uIBrcFRNIwCgopqQfxZIzPJfCheuO/4igIhU 2OYAoI3Diii/0q8VQeinezWHLS7042LT =eHDj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK--
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