Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 07:57:42 -0400 From: John Pollock <johnpollock@bellsouth.net> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox3 - can't deinstall Message-ID: <1272801462.50851.28.camel@wasp.rarepenguin.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1005011618290.36507@wonkity.com> References: <1272737668.82725.5.camel@wasp.rarepenguin.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1005011312270.35942@wonkity.com> <1272744411.82725.28.camel@wasp.rarepenguin.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1005011618290.36507@wonkity.com>
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On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 16:26 -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 1 May 2010, John Pollock wrote: > > > On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 13:13 -0600, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Sat, 1 May 2010, John Pollock wrote: > >> > >>> Am running FreeBSD 8.0 p2, and had installed Firefox3. > >>> Since it keeps crashing when viewing some web pages, I wanted to > >>> deinstall it. > >>> > >>> When I cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3 then run make deinstall, I get a error > >>> message that port is not installed. > >> > >> What message, exactly? The Firefox ports have moved around, and you may > >> be trying to uninstall one that isn't actually installed. > >> > >>> Which brings up a question, when installing using ports I normally run > >>> make install clean. > >>> > >>> Does this prevent then at later date make deinstall? > >> > >> No. > > > > Although, I've closed the console that had the message. It basically > > stated: Can't make deinstall, firefox3 not installed. <-- something to > > that effect. > > > > However, the pkg_delete command was able to deinstall it. > > No, this is exactly what I meant. Firefox ports changed names not too > long ago. The port you were in was not the one that was actually > installed (or it had changed names). > > > Thank you, for the information about make clean part of the command. > > > > I think the problem, was that I had installed FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE, then > > added the firefox3 port, then about a few weeks later upgraded to "p2" > > version and ran portupgrade. > > That's fine, should work with no problems. As long as you don't change > FreeBSD versions (like going from FreeBSD 8 to 9), you can continue to > upgrade ports without problems. > > > All is good right now. Have firefox35 now installed and working. > > Unfortunately, that's an obsolete port now. www/firefox is the main > one, currently at version 3.6. > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA Hi Warren, Thanks for the info, was unaware, that /usr/ports/firefox was the most current version of firefox. Am going through deinstall of firefox35 install of /usr/ports/firefox. This has been very helpful in bettering my understandings of the ports system. Thank you, JP > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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