Date: 10 Sep 2001 14:10:42 -0500 From: Jeremy <thinker5555@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Vim is both installed and uninstalled? Message-ID: <87itequaj1.fsf@yahoo.com>
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Hi, I tried to install vim 5.x from the packages directory on the 4.3 FreeBSD cd (downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org) and when I originally installed it, my computer thrashed around for a bit, and then it ended with something about "enable MOTIF="yes" in make.conf" or something similar to that. (unfortunately I didn't write it down at the time) I've read that some others on the list had a problem with an error about libX[something] not found when trying to run vim, so I thought that since I didn't have X installed, I'd just pkg_delete it. When I tried to do that, it told me that vim wasn't installed. When I tried to re-install it so that I could possibly get that error message again and try to figure out what was going on, it told me that vim was already installed! So, evidentally, I have vim in a state where it's both installed and not installed. So my question is this. How do I uninstall a package that comes up both installed and not installed? Is there a certain directory I have to run pkg_delete from in order for it to remove it? Thanks for your help, Jeremy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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