From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 12 17:44:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from koza.acecape.com (koza2.acecape.com [66.9.36.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023EA37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:44:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@natserv.com) Received: from p65-147.acedsl.com (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by koza.acecape.com (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f6D0bAe03188; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:37:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:38:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Francisco Reyes X-X-Sender: To: "Ramoncito P. Puyat" Cc: Subject: Re: difficulty uninstalling ports In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010713082116.01eac8b0@pop.info.com.ph> Message-ID: <20010712203715.J6209-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 " to get the exact name. Then use "pkg_delete " 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message