From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 18 09:47:49 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 94B6816A4B3 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:47:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.tcbug.org (12-218-40-24.client.mchsi.com [12.218.40.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F4D543FBF for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:47:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from friar_josh@tcbug.org) Received: by ns1.tcbug.org (Postfix, from userid 1012) id 69B5EB28B; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:46:14 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:46:14 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel To: "H. Bartel" Message-ID: <20030918164614.GN27665@tcbug.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deinstalling / reinstalling apache 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, 18 Sep 2003 16:47:49 -0000 On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 06:29:49PM +0200, H. Bartel wrote: > Hi everybody, > > how can I deinstall apache-1.3.27_4 so that I can do a fresh install of it? I can't make it run, so I want to start all over again and see if I did something wrong. > There is a file in /var/db/pkg/apache-1.3.27_4/ with the name "+DEINSTALL" which seems to be an executable, but I can't execute it. What does the "+" mean? Is this file what I need? > > Thanks a lot, > Holger pkg_info | grep apache will tell you the exact name of the apache package you have installed, you can then pkg_delete it. Josh