Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:17:37 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Joe <rootman22@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It's fixed! (was: PKG_DELETE Saying "package not installed"...HELP) Message-ID: <20011015131737.B293@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <01101505502002.00335@c595663-a>; from rootman22@home.com on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:24:40AM -0600 References: <01101408021500.00540@c595663-a> <20011014161633.D309@blossom.cjclark.org> <01101505502002.00335@c595663-a>
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:24:40AM -0600, Joe wrote: > > Thanks for responding. > > > > # pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/<packge_name> > > This doesn't work. bbpager isn't listed. > > >You can try to figure out what files are installed by the > > package and remove them by hand. > > OK, I looked at /usr/ports/x11-wm/bbpager/pkg-plist > to find out what files were installed and then deleted > them. After that, I went to http://portal.alug.org/blackbox/ , > downloaded and installed the 0.3.0 version of bbpager. > > Now, when I do $bbpager -v > I see bbpager version 0.3.0 > > Thanks for your help. It looks like this fixed the problem. Is that how you installed it last time? Did you even use the ports or package system that time or this time? That would explain why there was no entry for it in /var/db/pkg. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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