Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:57:40 -0700 From: Oliver Iberien <odilist@sonic.net> To: gerard@seibercom.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two firefoxes, 1.5 and 2.0, script keeps running 1.5 instead of 2.0 Message-ID: <200704120757.40975.odilist@sonic.net> In-Reply-To: <20070412054536.FE1B.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> References: <20070412054536.FE1B.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net>
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On Thursday 12 April 2007 02:48, Gerard wrote: > On Wednesday April 11, 2007 at 11:54:53 (PM) Oliver Iberien wrote: > > I seem to have messed up with pkgdb -F when firefox 1.5 got deprecated, > > and now have 1.5 installed without any clear way to get rid of it. > > > > bsd# cd /usr/ports/www/firefox15/ > > bsd# make deinstall > > ===> Deinstalling for www/firefox15 > > ===> firefox not installed, skipping > > > > Deinstalling any other way gets rid of 2.0 instead of > > 1.5. /usr/local/bin/firefox starts up 1.5 instead of 2.0 Does anyone > > know the way out of this? > > Try this: > > pkg_delete -dfv firefox* > > Then run: > > pkgdb -aFfv > > portsclean -CDLPP > > Now update your ports and install the firefox version of your choice. > Personally, I would use portmanager to install the port; however, the > choice is yours. Thanks for this... However, I can't get the first command to work: bsd# pkg_delete -dfv firefox* pkg_delete: No match. Is there some other way to express this, or something to tweak in my shell I have not done? Thanks, Oliver
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