Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 17:46:50 +0700 From: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> Subject: Re: uninstalling a port Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20011102174650.007ef7e0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <20011101201854.A3085-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> References: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0111011839590.9740-100000@sdf.lonestar.org>
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At 08:21 PM 11/1/01 +0100, you wrote: >On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Erik Sabowski wrote: > >> I want to uninstall a port, so i went to it's directory in the ports tree >> and ran 'make deinstall'. this didn;t work because i upgraded the ports >> tree since then, so what is there is a different version than what is >> installed. does that mean pkg_delete is the way to uninstall it? even >> though i didn;t install it from a package? thanks for any help > >Yes! You can install a port like that. > >1) Find the port you want to deinstall. Let's say you want to deinstall >pine. You'd do: > >pkg_info | grep pine > >You'd then get a line like > >pine-4.40 PINE(tm) - a program for Internet News & eMail > >2) Now that you know the exact name of the port (pine4.40), you can delete >it by typing > >pkg_delete -f pine-4.40 > >That's all! > >Greetings >Nils > >Nils Holland >Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany >http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org > I prefer to use: pkg_version -vs first-part-of-port-name -- Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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