From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 12:48:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FE7737B401 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 12:48:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta-1.gci.net (mta-1.gci.net [208.138.130.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C85BC43E6E for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 12:48:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonr@destar.net) Received: from mmp-1.gci.net ([208.138.130.80]) by mta-1.gci.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H0FTOY01.38I for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 11:48:34 -0800 Received: from win2kser ([24.237.6.229]) by mmp-1.gci.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id H0FTOZ03.B3X for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 11:48:35 -0800 From: "Jon Reynolds" To: Subject: RE: Checking installed packages Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 11:48:29 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20020806194002.BADAC2DD@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Beech Rintoul [mailto:akbeech@sinbad.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:40 AM To: Jon Reynolds; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Checking installed packages On Tuesday 06 August 2002 11:17 am, Jon Reynolds wrote: > I am trying to find out whiat packages are installed on my freebsd4.6 box. > I know I have php installed but when I do an 'pkg_info' it doesn't show up. > I have read that this command will only show if I used the pkg_add or > pkg_create commands. So what is the command that would show everything > installed? > > Jon > Software you compiled from distribution sources will not show up in pkg_info. I strongly suggest using the ports/packages whenever possible. The only way to delete a package you compiled yourself is from the original sources and make uninstall. Or you have to go in and delete the files by hand (yuck). If you stick with the ports you can use portupgrade to manage them which does a very good job of keeping the depends in tact. Beech -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - SysAdmin - akbeech@sinbad.net /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Sinbad Network Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 3101 Penland Parkway #K-38 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99508-1957 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- I would much rather use the ports directory as I think it is the greatest install program in the history of the universe!! Well, maybe not, but I love the ports way of installing. The one problem I have is I haven't figured out how to update my ports so that they are the lateset and greatest. PHP, for example, can I just update the one port or is it recommended to update the whole directory? And how is that done exactly? I have read about updating but I am still a novice user and some things just go over my head. Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message