From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 1 22:26:18 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B6B106564A for ; Sat, 1 May 2010 22:26:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A29B8FC1C for ; Sat, 1 May 2010 22:26:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o41MQG86036544; Sat, 1 May 2010 16:26:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id o41MQGL6036541; Sat, 1 May 2010 16:26:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 16:26:16 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: John Pollock In-Reply-To: <1272744411.82725.28.camel@wasp.rarepenguin.org> Message-ID: References: <1272737668.82725.5.camel@wasp.rarepenguin.org> <1272744411.82725.28.camel@wasp.rarepenguin.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 01 May 2010 16:26:16 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox3 - can't deinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 22:26:18 -0000 On Sat, 1 May 2010, John Pollock wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 13:13 -0600, Warren Block wrote: >> On Sat, 1 May 2010, John Pollock wrote: >> >>> Am running FreeBSD 8.0 p2, and had installed Firefox3. >>> Since it keeps crashing when viewing some web pages, I wanted to >>> deinstall it. >>> >>> When I cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3 then run make deinstall, I get a error >>> message that port is not installed. >> >> What message, exactly? The Firefox ports have moved around, and you may >> be trying to uninstall one that isn't actually installed. >> >>> Which brings up a question, when installing using ports I normally run >>> make install clean. >>> >>> Does this prevent then at later date make deinstall? >> >> No. > > Although, I've closed the console that had the message. It basically > stated: Can't make deinstall, firefox3 not installed. <-- something to > that effect. > > However, the pkg_delete command was able to deinstall it. No, this is exactly what I meant. Firefox ports changed names not too long ago. The port you were in was not the one that was actually installed (or it had changed names). > Thank you, for the information about make clean part of the command. > > I think the problem, was that I had installed FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE, then > added the firefox3 port, then about a few weeks later upgraded to "p2" > version and ran portupgrade. That's fine, should work with no problems. As long as you don't change FreeBSD versions (like going from FreeBSD 8 to 9), you can continue to upgrade ports without problems. > All is good right now. Have firefox35 now installed and working. Unfortunately, that's an obsolete port now. www/firefox is the main one, currently at version 3.6. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA