From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 25 15:35:13 2003 Return-Path: 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 671CB16A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Dec 2003 15:35:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from theatre.msu.edu (theatre.msu.edu [35.8.69.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B270143D46 for ; Thu, 25 Dec 2003 15:35:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sagejona@theatre.msu.edu) Received: from theatre.msu.edu (pcp02889326pcs.epoint01.mi.comcast.net [68.43.220.113]) (authenticated bits=0) by theatre.msu.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hBPNZ9w1066048 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 25 Dec 2003 18:35:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sagejona@theatre.msu.edu) Message-ID: <3FEB7422.4050105@theatre.msu.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 18:34:58 -0500 From: "Jonathan T. Sage" Organization: MSU Theatre User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org References: <3FEB709C.3090600@theatre.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3FEB709C.3090600@theatre.msu.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.82.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime X-Phone: +1-517-974-1428 X-IM: AIM=spartymobile, ICQ=9587621, YIM=wisesage98, MSN=sagejona@msu.edu X-HomePage: http://theatre.msu.edu X-PGPFingerprint: 182C CF3F 93A9 1DAA 2EBE D4D5 A159 96D9 452E A7F1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigF92F6862FA50E39998ECED22" Subject: Re: How to find package name X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 23:35:13 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigF92F6862FA50E39998ECED22 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jonathan T. Sage wrote: > > fbsd_user wrote: > >> What is the sure fired way to get the correct spelling of the package >> name to use with pkg_add -r command? >> > pkg_info | grep start.of.package.name > > i.e. > > # pkg_info | grep emacs > xemacs-21.4.14 This port tracks the... > xemacs-packages-10.0 Basic... > > *snips not included* > > hope this helps, happy holidays ~j > > of course, had i read the full question, i would have been a little more specifc for pkg_add, instead of pkg_delete. i usually use: # ftp ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/All/ *blah...* ftp> ls emacs* 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||62664|) 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for directory listing. -rw-r--r-- 1 110 root 8556988 Nov 11 11:39 emacs-19.34b.tgz *snip* ftp> exit # pkg_add -r emacs-19.34b.tgz also, pkg_add -r can take partials. i.e. pkg_add -r isc-dhcpd3 will install the latest isc-dhcpd3 version. ~j > ls emacs* -- Jonathan T. Sage Lighting & Scenic Design Professional Web Design [HTTP://www.theatre.msu.edu] [sagejona@msu.edu] [PGP: 182C CF3F 93A9 1DAA 2EBE D4D5 A159 96D9 452E A7F1] --------------enigF92F6862FA50E39998ECED22 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/63QioVmW2UUup/ERAkEHAJ9i1c0toN4jhFZ80O1kzerEqYNFRwCfeSiV E1+Qx3TwGuY6339Kv0EcR1E= =OEFf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigF92F6862FA50E39998ECED22--