Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:49:18 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Bob Perry <rperry4@earthlink.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to Reinstall OpenOffice from Ports Message-ID: <3EA02C8E.1000500@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3EA02942.7040702@earthlink.net> References: <3EA02942.7040702@earthlink.net>
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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
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