Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:56:28 +0800 From: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> To: Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reinstalling a package Message-ID: <4C2C664C.8040800@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinUz4a_vgR-DyleJU-Z0K3HR7-LhiCXvOYvU-Po@mail.gmail.com> References: <662514.74723.qm@web52907.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <AANLkTinUz4a_vgR-DyleJU-Z0K3HR7-LhiCXvOYvU-Po@mail.gmail.com>
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Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Chris Stankevitz > <chrisstankevitz@yahoo.com> wrote: >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2010-June/024394.html >> >> In the above post, a FreeBSD GNOME team member recommends "rebuilding and reinstalling sysutils/polkit, sysutils/policykit, and sysutils/consolekit". >> >> Q: How do I "rebuild and reinstall" these applications when they were installed originally via "pkg_add -r gnome2"? >> >> A: "pkg_add -r polkit" [fails with the message "already installed"] > > I have the same problem and asked a while back but got no answer. My > Gnome is partially broken because of a stupid libpng and libjpg > upgrade and I would like to re-install the whole thing from binary. > >> Thank you, >> >> Chris To reinstall a package you must first delete it. Do pkg_info | grep pkgname to get its full name. Then pkg_delete fullpkgname them pkg_add -r pkgname
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