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Subject: Re: difficulty uninstalling ports
Cc: "Ramoncito P. Puyat" <nitronarc@foresightone.com>,
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To: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>
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On Thursday, July 12, 2001, at 05:38 PM, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Ramoncito P. Puyat wrote:
>
>> Our system updates its source and ports every friday evening. However, 
>> when
>> we install a port and a new update is received, during deinstallation 
>> the
>> system says that the port was not installed. How do we deinstall the a 
>> port
>> after it has been updated?
>
> Use pkg_delete. You need the exact name of the package.
> You can use "pkg_info |grep -i <part of package name>" to get the exact
> name. Then use "pkg_delete <exact name>"
>
> At some point there were talks about changing pkg_delete so it would 
> take
> wildcards but last I checked it didn't seem to work.

But you can tab complete to pkg names if you're using zsh...

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