From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 16 17: 9:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sushi.toad.net (sushi.toad.net [162.33.130.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C7837B409 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 17:09:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bears (jeremy@core19d71.dynamic-dialup.toad.net [162.33.189.71]) by sushi.toad.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f8H09e230397 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 20:09:40 -0400 Received: by bears (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 17 Sep 2001 20:07:31 -0500 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Vim is both installed and uninstalled? (trying again) From: Jeremy Date: 17 Sep 2001 20:07:31 -0500 Message-ID: <87g09lpar0.fsf@yahoo.com> Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Hi, I tried to install vim 5.x from the packages directory on the 4.3 FreeBSD cd (downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org) and when I originally installed it, my computer thrashed around for a bit, and then it ended with something about "enable MOTIF="yes" in make.conf" or something similar to that. (unfortunately I didn't write it down at the time) I've read that some others on the list had a problem with an error about libX[something] not found when trying to run vim, so I thought that since I didn't have X installed, I'd just pkg_delete it. When I tried to do that, it told me that vim wasn't installed. When I tried to re-install it so that I could possibly get that error message again and try to figure out what was going on, it told me that vim was already installed! So, evidentally, I have vim in a state where it's both installed and not installed. So my question is this. How do I uninstall a package that comes up both installed and not installed? Is there a certain directory I have to run pkg_delete from in order for it to remove it? Thanks for your help, Jeremy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message