From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 11:55:32 2005 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 605AB16A537 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:55:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gawab.com (www.gawab.com [204.97.230.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE63143D48 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:55:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jadukor@gawab.com) Received: (qmail 19235 invoked by uid 1004); 14 Jan 2005 11:53:46 -0000 Message-ID: <20050114115346.19233.qmail@gawab.com> Received: from 202.84.41.6 by www.gawab.com with HTTP; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:53:46 GMT From: "Emon" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:53:46 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [202.84.41.6] Subject: 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, 14 Jan 2005 11:55:32 -0000 Hello every one I am nwebie running FreeBSD 5.3 I was tryimg to install the mc-4.6.0_13.tgz pkg but it gave me a load of depedencies which I had to painfulluy downloaded usinf my dial-up connection. #pkg_add mc-4.6.0_13.tgz pkg_add: could not find package p5-File-Spec-0.90 ! pkg_add: could not find package p5-PodParser-1.28_1 ! pkg_add: could not find package p5-Test-Harness-2.42 ! pkg_add: could not find package p5-Test-Simple-0.47_1 ! pkg_add: could not find package p5-File-Temp-0.14_1 ! # Then I had to download gettext-0.13.1_1.tgz & glib-2.4.6.tgz But now some of the packages were complaining that an older version is installed & I had no idea how to upgrade these packages. So in my blind rage I did "pkg_add -vf" on all packages including mc. Now mc works but I cannot uninstall it or any of the packages. I will show you an example. # pkg_add mc-4.6.0_13.tgz pkg_add: package 'mc-4.6.0_13' or its older version already installed # pkg_delete mc-4.6.0_13.tgz pkg_delete: no such package 'mc-4.6.0_13.tgz' installed # Now how on earth is that possible?? First it says "older version already installed" & than it says "no such package 'mc-4.6.0_13.tgz' installed". I am very new to the world of UNIX, before BSD I had a couple of months experience with SLACKWARE, & it was pretty cool, I could install/uninstall/upgrade packages pretty easily. Maybe I haven't read the HandBoook carefuly..., I don't know... somebody please tell me how to get this right... please Thanks --------------------------------------------- Free POP3 Email from www.Gawab.com Sign up NOW and get your account @gawab.com!!