From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 12:59:27 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 83BEC37B400 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 12:59:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (115-7-237-24-cable.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10DB43E6E for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 12:59:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org) Received: from there (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06CBB2DD; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 11:59:22 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul Organization: Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission To: "Jon Reynolds" , Subject: Re: Checking installed packages Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 11:59:22 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020806195923.06CBB2DD@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> 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 On Tuesday 06 August 2002 11:48 am, Jon Reynolds wrote: > -----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. Use cvsup to update your ports tree: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html Beech -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message