From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 28 14:03:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 5A10116A420 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 14:03:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from donaldjoneill@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D27FE43D53 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 14:03:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from donaldjoneill@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so825791nzo for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:03:34 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id:from; b=LEo+uBr19bjlnSYTP37Muc2NHNjCpgmp0fyKaBZznjkFIPyi4MpXIAj285ZCk4A47esnOLp6uYjJSoB+f8kJefdIorTaJ0IhNQJ4qBllq/ldJfstgtrzjeSKfRfzN3AO4+hO1xx1RM1s9XaJ12beAHIvA48k3/uvtVe/v6q2W0s= Received: by 10.36.81.11 with SMTP id e11mr3242570nzb; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:03:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from pres1750.mylan.net ( [68.249.0.105]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id c1sm1667554nzd.2006.01.28.06.03.34; Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:03:34 -0800 (PST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 08:03:27 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601280803.27886.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> From: "Donald J. O'Neill" Cc: mojo fms Subject: Re: question on the firefox port... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 14:03:36 -0000 On Friday 27 January 2006 22:33, mojo fms wrote: > I am having an odd problem on the firefox port. This is a fresh > install of Freebsd 6 and basicly what its doing ... > > ===> Generating temporary packing list > ===> Checking if www/firefox already installed > ===> firefox-1.5_5,1 is already installed > You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again > by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. > If you really wish to overwrite the old port of www/firefox > without deleting it first, set the variable > "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER" in your environment or the "make install" > command line. *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/www/firefox. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/www/firefox. > > I have tried, make deinstall ; make reinstall same error. I am not > sure of what i should set FORCE_PKG_REGISTER to but i tried, YES, > www/firefox and NO for the settings on it. Running it like this : > FORCE_PKG_REGISTER="NO" make reinstall ... i did this on make > reinstall and make install and nothing still.. > > > make deinstall ... > > root@# make deinstall > ===> Deinstalling for www/firefox > ===> firefox not installed, skipping > root@# > > any suggestions please. > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > Just what were you trying to do? You left out the information about how you got to this point. To get "make deinstall" and "make reinstall" to work, they have to be run from the port; in your case, run from /usr/ports/www/firefox. Don