Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 01:37:22 -0700 From: Rob Navarro <robnav247@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "make deinstall" within /usr/ports/lang - need to recover default language installs Message-ID: <514823C2.1050406@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51481F8B.6010206@freebsd.org> References: <514819A7.1080100@gmail.com> <51481F8B.6010206@freebsd.org>
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Dear Chaps, Thank you very much for responding so quickly. Curiously the freeBSD 9.0 was installed with the standard answers to a sysinstall session and did contain a version of perl. I now seem to be in the state of discovering which languages I need and then re-installing. Is there a list/database for freeBSD 9.0 standard sysinstalls languages that I can view and use to re-install (via pkg_add -v -r perl etc) ? [there must a config file for sysinstall to use itself] Kind regards, Rob > lang/ contains all languages and so on ruby, lua, python, perl.. Of > course you removed perl since you typed make deinstall in that parent > port tree. > > You can type make install in /usr/ports/lang/perl5.14 to install it > again. You don't need to reinstall FreeBSD, you're not on Windows > here, you can repair everything :) > > Note: there is no perl installed by default, it's in the ports for few > years now. > > Regards, On 19/03/2013 01:19, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 19/03/2013 07:54, Rob Navarro wrote: >> Hi Chaps, >> >> I typed "make deinstall" within the /usr/ports/lang directory of a >> FreeBSD 9.0 and mistakenly lost Perl, Python, Ruby and a whole host of >> default compiled languages. >> >> How can I get back to the default FreeBSD default installed language >> state (with Perl installed etc)? > Ummm.... the default state is with just the base system installed: no > extra languages like perl or python and no other additional software > packages. > >> Crossing my fingers that I need not re-install the OS... > Nope. You absolutely do not need to do that -- all you did will have > affected the ports, which on FreeBSD is a distinct entity from the base > system. > > To recover, you simply need to re-install the appropriate ports. If you > know what you want installed, then it's easy: you can just feed a list > of those ports into portmaster(8) or portupgrade(8). > > If you don't know what you need installed in order to support various > end user programs, then there are various ways of checking that the > dependencies of the required ports are installed. For instance, if > you're using pkgng, you could run 'pkg check -da' At worst, and > requiring the least amount of extra software, just try re-installing the > packages in question. This should work, but you might end up doing a > lot of strictly unnecessary recompiling. > > Matthew > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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