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Date:      Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:03:18 -0800
From:      Beech Rintoul <akbeech@sinbad.net>
To:        ozdemir dogan <ozdemirdgn@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: couldn't delete pkg
Message-ID:  <20020815190318.D895D6E3@nebula.anchoragerescue.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020815184036.58602.qmail@web14911.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20020815184036.58602.qmail@web14911.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Thursday 15 August 2002 10:40 am, you wrote:
>    I installed yahoo messenger from
> ymessenger-0.99-19-1.tgz by pkg_add  -f command.But I
> want to delete it.But couldn't manage it.Pkg_delete
> says pkg_delete: no such package
> 'ymessenger-0.99-19-1' installed.But it is in
> /var/db/pkg.How can I remove it.
>    Thank you.
>

type pkg_info | grep ymessenger

That will give you the installed package name

type pkg_delete -vf packagename      <---------- must be exactly the same as 
what pkg_info displays.

Beech

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