Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 19:06:51 -0700 From: William Carrel <william.carrel@infospace.com> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> Cc: "Ramoncito P. Puyat" <nitronarc@foresightone.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: difficulty uninstalling ports Message-ID: <20010713020653.C0F6637B403@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20010712203715.J6209-100000@zoraida.natserv.net>
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On Thursday, July 12, 2001, at 05:38 PM, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Ramoncito P. Puyat wrote: > >> Our system updates its source and ports every friday evening. However, >> when >> we install a port and a new update is received, during deinstallation >> the >> system says that the port was not installed. How do we deinstall the a >> port >> after it has been updated? > > Use pkg_delete. You need the exact name of the package. > You can use "pkg_info |grep -i <part of package name>" to get the exact > name. Then use "pkg_delete <exact name>" > > At some point there were talks about changing pkg_delete so it would > take > wildcards but last I checked it didn't seem to work. But you can tab complete to pkg names if you're using zsh... -- Andy Carrel - william.carrel@infospace.com - +1 (206) 357-4607 Internet Sys. Eng. - Enterprise Infrastructure & Security - InfoSpace To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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