From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 16: 7:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FCAD37B40A for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 16:07:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c595663-a ([24.254.67.120]) by femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20011015230706.XNJX14800.femail17.sdc1.sfba.home.com@c595663-a>; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 16:07:06 -0700 From: Joe To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, "Crist J. Clark" Subject: Re: It's fixed! (was: PKG_DELETE Saying "package not installed"...HELP) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 16:56:00 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <01101408021500.00540@c595663-a> <01101505502002.00335@c595663-a> <20011015131737.B293@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20011015131737.B293@blossom.cjclark.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01101517061000.00329@c595663-a> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is that how you installed it last time? Did you even use the ports or > package system that time or this time? That would explain why there > was no entry for it in /var/db/pkg. Now that you mention it, at the time, I didn't know it was in /usr/ports/x11-wm/ so I just downloaded and installed it from the Blackbox web site. I didn't realize that the only apps that show up in /var/db/pkg are the ones you install from ports or packages. I thought they would be listed in there regardless of what installation method is used. I recently upgraded my ports and the port for bbpager got upgraded to v 0.2.8 Version 0.3.0 is the most current version and AFAIK, works the best. Thanks again for your help. I'll try to stick to installing via ports or pkg_add in the future. Joe On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:24:40AM -0600, Joe wrote: > > > > Thanks for responding. > > > > > > > # pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/ > > > > This doesn't work. bbpager isn't listed. > > > > >You can try to figure out what files are installed by the > > > package and remove them by hand. > > > > OK, I looked at /usr/ports/x11-wm/bbpager/pkg-plist > > to find out what files were installed and then deleted > > them. After that, I went to http://portal.alug.org/blackbox/ , > > downloaded and installed the 0.3.0 version of bbpager. > > > > Now, when I do $bbpager -v > > I see bbpager version 0.3.0 > > > > Thanks for your help. It looks like this fixed the problem. > > Is that how you installed it last time? Did you even use the ports or > package system that time or this time? That would explain why there > was no entry for it in /var/db/pkg. > -- > Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu > | cjclark@jhu.edu > http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message