From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 18 09:49:22 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 41D1E37B401 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:49:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8544543FBF for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:49:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h3IGnIwl000382; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:49:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EA02C8E.1000500@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:49:18 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Perry References: <3EA02942.7040702@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <3EA02942.7040702@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: How to Reinstall OpenOffice from Ports 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: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 16:49:22 -0000 Bob Perry wrote: > I just attempted to install OpenOffice -1.0.2_2 suite using the FreeBSD > (4.7 RELEASE) ports tool. > After successfully completing the make install process, I started the > setup script, ./setup, instead of ./setup -net by mistake . I stopped > the process and started again using the /setup -net script. > > I inadvertently started the deinstall process and had to start again. > This time I realized that I had lost the setup scripts and apparently > some other important config files as well. > > I thought that I could make things whole again by running another make > install but nothing happended. Am I wrong in this assumption? Is there > a step I missed in trying to run make install? Not sure I understand exactly what process you went through, but ... make deinstall; make install should work Alternative, "make reinstall" seems to repeat the process of copying files to their final homes. All from the port directory, of course. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com