Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:03:18 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@sinbad.net> To: ozdemir dogan <ozdemirdgn@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: couldn't delete pkg Message-ID: <20020815190318.D895D6E3@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <20020815184036.58602.qmail@web14911.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020815184036.58602.qmail@web14911.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thursday 15 August 2002 10:40 am, you wrote:
> I installed yahoo messenger from
> ymessenger-0.99-19-1.tgz by pkg_add -f command.But I
> want to delete it.But couldn't manage it.Pkg_delete
> says pkg_delete: no such package
> 'ymessenger-0.99-19-1' installed.But it is in
> /var/db/pkg.How can I remove it.
> Thank you.
>
type pkg_info | grep ymessenger
That will give you the installed package name
type pkg_delete -vf packagename <---------- must be exactly the same as
what pkg_info displays.
Beech
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