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From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Firefox3 - can't deinstall
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On Saturday 01 May 2010 19:14:28 John Pollock wrote:

> When I cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3 then run make deinstall, I get a error
> message that port is not installed.

You should use pkg_delete instead: running "make deinstall" could fail if the 
port has been updated since installing it.

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Bruce Cran